So if I'm reading this right, it was wrong only because they were spying on Americans. Spying on others is apparently still ok.
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#352We really really need to shut this down as a national security issue. If they took it off Apple and Google Play stores it would reduce usage immediately by at least 80-90% along with having apple/android send out blocks like they can for malware (which it is). It's hard to believe Biden didn't continue Trump's attempt to shut it down.
>Trump's attempt to shut it down.
Believe it or not, Trump’s policy was more nuanced than what are getting now. They were in the process of forcing a sale of the company to a US owner.
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#353So if I'm reading this right, it was wrong only because they were spying on Americans. Spying on others is apparently still ok.
You're not reading it right. The FT journalist in this story is not American. But, as a general rule, nations seek to protect their own citizens.
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Journalists are employees, if you dislike the amount of investigation being done look at the companies involved.
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#355Earlier quoted context omitted.
I may be wrong, but to my eye, China has a direct interest in Russia being successful in its invasion of Ukraine : the invasion of Taiwan. China is and has been - as Russia did, prior to its invasion - massively expanding its armed forces. To my eye, there is absolutely no defensive need for this - India is not about in invade, for example. There is only one use for all this weaponry; Taiwan. I swim a lot, and I meet…
Don't see how Russia succeeding in a winning settlement of an artillery war on its land borders would greatly change China's chances of success using their much bigger army to wholly capture an island which the US might honour its commitment to directly intervene to defend. Russia having a horrible time of it is a reminder to China that military annexation of Taiwan wouldn't be easy, but the basic problems with tryin…
It's about the international reaction, not (only) about the outcome of the fighting itself.
China can see the price the intensional community levies upon a war now, and, in case Russia accidentally wins, they can also see the price of occupying an otherwise independent nation.
Mind you: Taiwan isn't recognised as an independent nation by nearly as many nations as Ukraine is.
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#356"The Chinese are stealing your data and spying on you! This is deeply immoral and unprecedentedly bad!" - The Americans Stealing Your Data and Spying On You
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#357One of the more unexpected parts of the Twitter files (part 7, in fact) is it reveals some well developed linkages between the US intelligence services and media companies. If the US is blurring the corporate-government boundaries, the Chinese are certainly much more aggressive in their activities. And all these agencies run extra-legal kidnapping operations.
I'm rare in that although I don't like it corporate spying doesn't really scare me. Corporations can't do very much without breaking the law. My concern is that this information is then passed on to the people who are empowered to come and drag me out of my home. Some of whom aren't even subject to my legal system. It makes more extreme measures like the GDPR seem insufficient.
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#358Earlier quoted context omitted.
>>which is why you vote regularly to ensure that your rights are represented and those agencies aren't able to abuse their power That never works out in practice as the administrative state (which includes the FBI and CIA) are soo far removed from representative government they are basically unaccountable at this point, that is with out even getting into the idea that 1 vote in a nation of 350 million plus holds no r…
> "Democracy" is more or less an delusion those in power perpetuate to ensure the cattle think they have a choice Like him or not, Trump was very much not the preference of those in power, and very much was the preference of many people in America. That shows the people do have power.
An aberition in the system is not a rule. Look what happened after the person that was supposed to win lost. That will never happen again the system will see to that
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That is a very curious reading of history not shared by the majority of military historians in either the West or East. For example, according to the US military (See The West Point Military History of the Second World War which is available on Kindle), without US support, WW2 would have lasted 1-2 years longer but the Soviets could have defeated Germany all on their own, both without lend/lease and also without any…
I agree on the importance of timing also regarding the then new weapons the Germans had, like the V2 and the first jet airplanes. We'll never know, but it is possible that having one more year of research and production at disposal could have changed things.
V2 is not going to make up for a deficit of 12 million troops. Red Army went from about 1 million men to 12-14 million men by 1945 (which number it depends on whether you count the Navy and other branches). Germany invaded with 3.7 million men and by the end of 1942, the Red Army was both larger and better equipped than the Wehrmacht, which was already experiencing shortages.
I mean, it's not even close. And the Soviet Union, with enormous quantities of oil, iron ore, and other raw materials, could mass produce tanks, planes, and heavy weapons in massive quantities.
This was why Stalingrad was so important -- it was the gate to the Soviet Oil fields, and once that gate was closed, the war was basically over. Had Germany been able to capture the Caucauses, one could argue that the USSR would be starved of energy and so dependent on the US or some other nation to supply it. But that never happened.
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#360We really really need to shut this down as a national security issue. If they took it off Apple and Google Play stores it would reduce usage immediately by at least 80-90% along with having apple/android send out blocks like they can for malware (which it is). It's hard to believe Biden didn't continue Trump's attempt to shut it down.
What about the First Amendment?