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Re:Microsoft and Google to sue over US surveillance requests by belorn on Saturday August 31, 2013 @09:50PM (#6308780)
They happen to omit that they got paid for delivering peoples private information to the NSA.

Its one thing to be forced to deliver some kind of information against your will. It something else if you do it like a shop, providing goods in return for revenue.

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Re:Microsoft and Google to sue over US surveillance requests by gizmo686 on Saturday August 31, 2013 @11:09PM (#6308963)
Did they deliver private information without a legal order to do so? If they were legally obligated to do something which has a non-negligable cost, they are entitled to compensation. In the same way that you might have to pay for a FOIA request, because it costs money to provide the data.
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Re:Microsoft and Google to sue over US surveillance requests by genwin on Sunday September 01, 2013 @12:08AM (#6309117)
Yes, if a factory is legally ordered to make a weapon to be used against innocents, of course they should both make it and get paid for that. The law is the law, and it costs money to make the weapon.
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