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Re:Poll: Are there too many NSA stories on HN, or not enough? by jlgreco on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @09:51PM (#6371531)
I think it's a good example.
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Re:Poll: Are there too many NSA stories on HN, or not enough? by diminoten on Thursday September 12, 2013 @11:27AM (#6374627)
It's a good example of how you can make the usage of a tool a political issue, but the tool itself is agnostic to its use.

A tool does not care why it was created. A hammer won't refuse to bash in a skull because "that's not what it was built for".

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