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by cobrausn 4728 days ago
It is absolutely colorblind to be calling out America specifically as 'unethical' because it spies on foreigners. Every government ever spies on foreigners - some just do it more than others. Hell, Germany just convicted a Russian spy couple not one week ago (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23145426).

I'm not convinced the whole game is worth the effort, but I'm not going to pretend there isn't an actual need for government intelligence gathering. And there are quite a few of us who see a big distinction between targeted intelligence gathering and broad spectrum communications interception.