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Re:Russia Moves To Ban Online Services That Don’t Store Pers... by alexro on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @08:26AM (#7976477)
Russians prefer a cleptocratic government with Putin than a cleptocratic government without Putin. There are no non-cleptocratic governments in the world. Power corrups ... you know the rest of this, right?
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Re:Russia Moves To Ban Online Services That Don’t Store Pers... by vdaniuk on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @08:34AM (#7976531)
Just stop this craptastic argument of "every government is the same". Another favorite argument taken directly from putinbots social media guidance.

And stop using strawman arguments. No government is perfect but there are degrees of corruption in the government. Russian government is extremely corrupt, Iceland government is a little bit corrupt. One is better than another. God, do I really have to post trivia on HN?

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Re:Russia Moves To Ban Online Services That Don’t Store Pers... by alexro on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @09:10AM (#7976723)
Don't think trivial and you'll be safe. There are degrees of corruption between of the biggest countries and the tiny ones, but not so much inside the group. The methods vary, of course.
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Re:Russia Moves To Ban Online Services That Don’t Store Pers... by mercurial on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @09:58AM (#7976978)
You have plenty of small, extremely corrupt countries as well.
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Re:Russia Moves To Ban Online Services That Don’t Store Pers... by Schwoisser on Friday July 04, 2014 @05:32PM (#7990275)
But smaller countries tend to do better.
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