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by ruloo 4345 days ago
We don't need the courts to make it illegal. You can damage political adversaries in court of public opinion by leaking other damaging information. protest-plans.ppt could just be a way to identify political threats in order to flag and search other traffic records. we know that the intelligence agencies spy on politicians. A dirty picture or chat affair leaked to the press destroys a user before they even get into an office of power. or detects and removes someone in position to be a whistleblower.