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Re:The Twitter Files, Part Six by petesergeant on Saturday December 17, 2022 @08:51AM (#34027723)
> Do we really want the FBI manning a task force of 80+(according to Taibbi) agents to monitor social media threads, and if so, what's to stop that number from just growing and growing?

They have a limited budget. If the FBI reckons their mission is best accomplished this way, who are we to second-guess it?

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Re:The Twitter Files, Part Six by fallingknife on Saturday December 17, 2022 @11:01AM (#34028887)
> who are we to second-guess it?

The citizens of a democracy who have full political rights and whose government is not allowed to do anything at all without our approval.

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Re:The Twitter Files, Part Six by petesergeant on Saturday December 17, 2022 @11:07AM (#34028966)
> whose government is not allowed to do anything at all without our approval

Really? I thought you were restricted to voting for your representatives?

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