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Re:Facebook Is a Hostile Foreign Power by aaron-santos on Monday September 27, 2021 @12:14PM (#28672560)
Why would you conflate hostile foreign power and being at war? There is a difference here between necessary and sufficient conditions. The presence of hostile foreign powers with whom we are not at war is evidence enough.
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Re:Facebook Is a Hostile Foreign Power by shukantpal on Monday September 27, 2021 @12:56PM (#28673150)
The board of Facebook consists of Americans. They are helping a hostile foreign power ( Facebook).
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Re:Facebook Is a Hostile Foreign Power by aaron-santos on Monday September 27, 2021 @02:11PM (#28674023)
Help me out. How does that imply war?
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Re:Facebook Is a Hostile Foreign Power by AlbertCory on Monday September 27, 2021 @03:30PM (#28675010)
Getting back to your original posting:

First of all, my whole posting was tongue-in-cheek, which everyone else seems to have gotten.

Anyhow, does it makes sense that "A formal declaration of war" has somewhat more legal force than "An Atlantic headline writer declaring them a hostile foreign power" ?

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Re:Facebook Is a Hostile Foreign Power by aaron-santos on Monday September 27, 2021 @04:40PM (#28675720)
Thanks for explaining. Today was my day to not get a joke on the internet :)
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