[vyper91]

"While the sales are legal, human rights campaigners and cyber-security experts have expressed serious concerns these powerful tools could be used to spy on millions of people and thwart any signs of dissent."

Whilst true, why does this point seem to matter for other countries governments than our own?

[LordKano]

By no means am I excusing the excesses of my government or its western allies, though I would like to point out that we won't execute someone for blasphemy like some of those other nations.

I say we put out the big fire first.

[Already__Taken]

Ultimately is the motive that countries have even to improve the state of other countries? I mean, it should be. Less places that have a chance to becoming a democratic capitalist utopia is a win for the old guard like the west right? We seem to have done well with it.

[plafl]

The spying is equally evil, the consequences are different