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Re:‘Extremely aggressive’ internet censorship spreads in the... by bobthepanda on Thursday November 19, 2020 @04:20AM (#25147691)
Although this is fair, we do actually know what a state capable of this looks like.

The East German Stasi ended up with records of about 5.6M out of a population of ~16M people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi_Records_Agency

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Re:‘Extremely aggressive’ internet censorship spreads in the... by throw2011190740 on Thursday November 19, 2020 @10:09AM (#25150258)
I wonder how many records Google hold. What's more is that the CIA has a stake in Google https://www.wired.com/2010/07/exclusive-google-cia/ I am pretty sure the Google/CIA operation make Stasi's capabilities look like child's play.
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