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A comment on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Government Surveillance [ft. Edward Snowden]. Parent comment

Re:Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Government Surveillan... by amyjess on Monday April 06, 2015 @10:08AM (#9328138)
J. Edgar Hoover did this back in the '60s.

This is nothing new, doesn't require modern technology, and doesn't even require mass surveillance (Hoover targeted specific individuals for gathering blackmail material).

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