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Re:Code Specialists Oppose U.S. and British Access to Encryp... by sixbrx on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @12:46PM (#9846547)
You're probably right, but the American case may be the only case the author felt qualified to comment on.
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Re:Code Specialists Oppose U.S. and British Access to Encryp... by pyre on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @02:54PM (#9847389)
Seconded. Many times in online discussions people will make sweeping statements about "all" people. This always elicits a response from someone about how that doesn't happen in "my" culture/country/whatever (or how that only happens in America / only applies to Americans).

In this case, the person scoped their statement to (presumably) the society that they are most familiar with, yet this still managed to elicit a response that the scope was not broad enough!

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Re:Code Specialists Oppose U.S. and British Access to Encryp... by bencollier49 on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @12:58PM (#9846620)
G.K. Chesterton was British.
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Re:Code Specialists Oppose U.S. and British Access to Encryp... by chc on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @01:43PM (#9846904)
But the author of that comment about Americans was not G.K. Chesterton.
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