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Re:Snowden: US asked British spy agency to stop Guardian pub... by KindAndFriendly on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @12:09PM (#32664249)
> ... i find the three letter agencies to be entrusted with surveilance of the masses, to be the most useless and untrustworthy stewart of the public imagineable

What makes you think so? For example, the German government prevented a number of terror attacks by monitoring electronic chat and mail exchange.

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Re:Snowden: US asked British spy agency to stop Guardian pub... by atoav on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @12:27PM (#32664562)
The problem is that every democratic government is ultimately based on the idea to give some people enough power so they can govern, but not so much that they cannot be removed from power again.

That balance is not something that would remain uninfluenced by giving the executive the power to surveil the population that brings a government into power.

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Re:Snowden: US asked British spy agency to stop Guardian pub... by raxxorraxor on Thursday September 01, 2022 @05:07AM (#32673874)
The German government is not a good example for well behaved governments, especially in regards to individual rights and free expression.

Fear drives surveillance ambitions and some stereotypes have some merit.

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