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by kbart 3844 days ago
"No right is absolute, and that includes the right to privacy. Criminals, for example, simply don't have it."

The problem is, that by definition, you can't take away privacy from criminals without taking it away from everyone else. Especially when term criminal varies from country to country -- in this case it might be a drug lord, but i.e. in Russia it might be an opposition leader or journalist that dug too deep.

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...or a gay person. Or a Jewish person. Or a Christian. Or a woman. Take your pick, somewhere on this planet it's against someone's law to be that and communicate freely.
Then fix the real problem of the bad law. Deflection only makes things worse.
Muslims or Arabs should be there too., unless you want to ban them!