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Re:Tech companies, bristling, concede to government surveill... by danso on Saturday June 08, 2013 @12:17AM (#5843773)
I don't know what to say here. I agree that our prison-industrial complex is reprehensible. And I was born too many years after slavery to say that a society that enslaved a race, legally, is conclusively worse than a society with harsh sentencing laws. But...I dunno, I'll just reaffirm tptacek's assertion that we should strive to be less ahistorical when assessing the current status quo.
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Re:Tech companies, bristling, concede to government surveill... by monsterix on Saturday June 08, 2013 @12:27AM (#5843797)
> that enslaved a race, legally, is conclusively worse than a society with harsh sentencing laws.

True that.

> tptacek's assertion that we should strive to be less ahistorical when assessing the current status quo.

We != people. We = Government, I believe. The Government should be less ahistorical in their workings and policy-making. Prevention of terror attacks, cold war logic is exactly the kind of argument that is outdated.

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