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Re:U.S. court: Mass surveillance program exposed by Snowden ... by Schiendelman on Thursday September 03, 2020 @07:27AM (#24362904)
Sounds like fascism.
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Re:U.S. court: Mass surveillance program exposed by Snowden ... by natcombs on Thursday September 03, 2020 @08:38AM (#24363404)
No, it sounds like a rogue IC agency. The textbook definition of fascism doesn’t apply here. This word keeps appearing on HN without any reasoning
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Re:U.S. court: Mass surveillance program exposed by Snowden ... by metiscus on Thursday September 03, 2020 @08:49AM (#24363486)
In the modern zeitgeist anything authoritarian or that can be interpreted from the center-left to be slightly right of center is being called fascism as shorthand for "bad policy I disagree with". The conflation of authoritarianism vs policy difference is where some danger lies.
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Re:U.S. court: Mass surveillance program exposed by Snowden ... by Schiendelman on Monday September 07, 2020 @02:26PM (#24401409)
What makes you consider them “rogue”?
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