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Re:U.S. will continue to seek Assange’s extradition – U.S. J... by randomopining on Monday January 04, 2021 @07:45PM (#25640473)
You realize that the democratic spy agencies have to deal with China, Russia, and terrorists? So you would want us to hold ourselves to the highest standards, while they could play every dirty trick in the book and eventually take us over.

Then we lose our democracy that you and I both cherish.

Also these things don't even impact 99.999% of people.

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Re:U.S. will continue to seek Assange’s extradition – U.S. J... by webmobdev on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @10:04PM (#25666771)
> So you would want us to hold ourselves to the highest standards, while they could play every dirty trick in the book

Yes. You want democratic values to survive over generations, not "democracies". Spying on your own citizens, to figure out how to manipulate them better through corporates, transfers the power from the people to select corporates and government. It upsets the balance of power that democracy promises. And is thus an attack on its very essence.

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Re:U.S. will continue to seek Assange’s extradition – U.S. J... by sjg007 on Monday January 04, 2021 @08:41PM (#25640984)
What does spying on Americans have to do with China, Russia and terrorists (who are by definition foreign nationals)..?
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Re:U.S. will continue to seek Assange’s extradition – U.S. J... by randomopining on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @04:24PM (#25651298)
Dual citizen spies that infiltrate tech companies or the DOD? There’s plenty of those.
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Re:U.S. will continue to seek Assange’s extradition – U.S. J... by webmobdev on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @10:06PM (#25666785)
So everyone is presumed guilty until their innocence is proven? Does that sound like a working democracy or like China or Russia?
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Re:U.S. will continue to seek Assange’s extradition – U.S. J... by randomopining on Thursday January 07, 2021 @01:44PM (#25675319)
How is a passive act of surveilling the same as being guilty?

Passive surveilling (esp the mass metadata type) doesn't hurt anybody.

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