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Re:Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data, Central Distric... by DaiPlusPlus on Saturday October 30, 2021 @07:25AM (#29047936)
Ah - wow, dang. I believed the cover-story that Tor was a side-project of a humanitarian org in the US gov that wanted to provide people in firewalled countries a way to access the wider internet - of course, Tor does do that (just as a nice side-effect, and to be fair, the US does benefit and encourage democratic (...and neoliberal) ideals worldwide as its in their own interests to).

...it's kinda like how we were all told that the 1950s-1970s space-launches with monkeys and other animals in them were for bio-scientific experiments when they were really just cover stories for launching spy-sats and military satellites.

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Re:Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data, Central Distric... by tsimionescu on Saturday October 30, 2021 @12:23PM (#29049980)
> just as a nice side-effect, and to be fair, the US does benefit and encourage democratic (...and neoliberal) ideals worldwide as its in their own interests to

To be clear, they encourage democratic ideals where/if it's in their own interests to. There are plenty of places where they encourage non-democratic ideals as well (or directly fund their own coups to put usually military leaders they like in power).

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Re:Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data, Central Distric... by GhettoComputers on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @09:12AM (#29080653)
The space race was a test for intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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