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Re:I refused to become an FBI informant, the government put ... by throwaway0a5e on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @07:34PM (#26718684)
Regardless of what it is how many here jumping for joy if instead of a "noble security researcher" those tactics were being used against people peddling untaxed goods, rubber stamping commercial motor vehicle inspections or some other "you need to extrapolate out at least a few steps to find a victim" type crime? The government only gets away with this stuff because people turn a blind eye when its done to people they don't like.
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Re:I refused to become an FBI informant, the government put ... by pasquinelli on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @07:59PM (#26718880)
no, the government gets away with this stuff because they have power. people turn a blind eye because it doesn't matter if they don't, because they don't have power.
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Re:I refused to become an FBI informant, the government put ... by solveit on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @09:10PM (#26719418)
The government gets away with this stuff because people can't coordinate their power, which looks basically the same as powerless people turning a blind eye. You guys are describing two facets of the same thing, but the people do in fact have more power than the government.
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Re:I refused to become an FBI informant, the government put ... by dTal on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @08:10AM (#26723660)
They can coordinate their power; it's called "government". Government employs about 15% of the labor force in America, and that's not even including contractors for whom government is the only customer.

Any large-scale coordination will necessarily eclipse the individual and take on a life of its own; you can't really have it both ways.

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