Given that the excesses of the surveillance programs started on his watch, he can certainly carry a significant portion of the blame. As can congress from both parties, and now Obama.
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Originally posted by Sava View PostOkay. It just seems odd to criticize a country for surveillance programs that are less pervasive than in your own country.
Don't get me wrong, GCHQ and others are more than capable of wanting to do that stuff on their own, but the US is paying them £500m a year to finance it and pushing them to expand their programs. Not blaming both governments would be foolish.
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Originally posted by Sava View PostOkay. It just seems odd to criticize a country for surveillance programs that are less pervasive than in your own country.
Less pervasive?
Yeah, let's ignore that every bit on the internet and a lot on phone lines is being stored, decrypted (when needed) and read or listened to at leisure by government agencies because heavens forbid somewhere, some one is doing something that doesn't happen in Chicago.
Here's a clue, buttwipe, if the NSA could not do to American citizens what they are obviously doing, they would pay the Brits or someone else to do it.
The problem isn't Brits with cameras, it's the lengths governments everywhere are going to monitor civilian behaviour. They would get a good jolly laugh about us, the peons, falling to fighting amongst ourselves over who's got the worst government.
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Originally posted by regexcellent View PostYou don't get to say "it's different here because we feel differently."
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Originally posted by notyoueither View PostLess pervasive?
Yeah, let's ignore that every bit on the internet and a lot on phone lines is being stored, decrypted (when needed) and read or listened to at leisure by government agencies because heavens forbid somewhere, some one is doing something that doesn't happen in Chicago.
Here's a clue, buttwipe, if the NSA could not do to American citizens what they are obviously doing, they would pay the Brits or someone else to do it.
The problem isn't Brits with cameras, it's the lengths governments everywhere are going to monitor civilian behaviour. They would get a good jolly laugh about us, the peons, falling to fighting amongst ourselves over who's got the worst government.
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Big deal. Emails are run through a giant filter and flagged.
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