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by bespoke_engnr 3885 days ago
The fact that none of the other commenters above made this connection is a bit strange for a community of Tech/Internet/Web people. Is all of this really that shiny?
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What about the fact that this situation has already happened, but played out differently - the government of China asked Google for moar intel, and Google basically responded "fuck it, we're outta here". And that's why today I had to check my private e-mail over a VPN.
PRISM doesn't ring a bell for you?
It does. I remember Google being the victim, not a perpetrator.