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Re:Megaupload programmer goes to prison for one year by gambiting on Monday February 16, 2015 @05:05AM (#9056079)
Imagine if it worked the other way around.....if one day a US court got a request from Saudi Arabia asking to jail one of US citizens because they broke Saudi law on the internet(even though they have never been to Saudi Arabia). US would politely tell them to fuck off. Yet, when US does this to another country,they comply? It's disgusting.
Re:Megaupload programmer goes to prison for one year by geon on Monday February 16, 2015 @07:30AM (#9056585)
I wish more countries had the balls to tell the US to fuck off. I wish MY country did; then we wouldn't have had the Pirate Bay Gate, where Swedish constitution was stepped all over.
Re:Megaupload programmer goes to prison for one year by pluma on Monday February 16, 2015 @04:36PM (#9059199)
Frankly, I was pretty appalled how the European countries reacted during the Snowden affair. Not just interfering with the travel of a diplomatic plane he was suspected to be on (just imagine someone did that with the Air Force One), but also keeping mum and looking the other way when he was requesting asylum after telling everyone what the US had done to their citizens (and governments).

That was the saddest display of spinelessness I've ever seen, to be honest. I never felt that ashamed of my country and the EU.

The excuses about him having to be on German soil to request asylum were especially infuriating. Considering the government's reaction thus far, it is painfully obvious Germany would receive and grant an extradition request faster than you can see "Volkssouveränität".

Re:Megaupload programmer goes to prison for one year by hellbanner on Monday February 16, 2015 @10:29AM (#9057270)
the US spends the most resources on military every year.

"I wish my neighbors would tell the bully to fuck off when he demands their lunch money"

Here's what happens to countries who tell the USA to fuck off (spoilers: they get economically and militarily invaded):

http://www.amazon.com/Game-As-Old-Empire-Corruption/dp/15767... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit...