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by enlightenedfool 3910 days ago
"their government and citizens should be ashamed of themselves" Really? Are you ashamed of your government's cyber attacks on other nations? I could just replace the word "China" with "USA" in your comment and everything is still true.
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> Really? Are you ashamed of your government's cyber attacks on other nations?

The U.S does minimal hacking and when it does, it's nearly surgical in nature. It's a precise target for a precise reason. This is unlike other countries' hacking (read: China & Russia) where it's indiscriminate and relentless. They hope to steal anything and everything.

The world isn't black & white. It's infinite shades of grey. Believe it or not, one form of hacking can be "less bad" than another form. Regardless, China and Russia's government hacking programs are orders of magnitude larger than the U.S's program.

> I could just replace the word "China" with "USA" in your comment and everything is still true.

No you couldn't. Again, the world isn't black and white and not all crimes are the same. Is a mass murderer and a petty thief the same? They're both criminals, right? If you don't think they're the same, then you begin to understand that the world isn't black and white.

then you would have correctly assessed the satire.