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by throwaway10001 4732 days ago
When you join the Army etc you largely leave your free speech (and many other) rights at the door, so I fail to see the equivalence.

My guess is that that info is still classified, even though it's public, and accessing it might be a technical violation for those without clearances.
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rhizome 4732 days ago
For the first part, I didn't say they were equivalent. I said it was the same criteria by which China and Snowden were criticized, not that the US was doing to all of its citizens all of the things that the US criticizes China for.

For the second, honest question: does published information actually retain its classification?

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zimbatm 4730 days ago
> My guess is that that info is still classified, even though it's public, and accessing it might be a technical violation for those without clearances.

What prevents people to use their 3G network to fetch up the article ? Public is public, it's too late for clearance.

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