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by LLWM 4134 days ago
Surveillance is situationally justifiable. Torture is not. This isn't a complex problem.
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I think that surveillance and dragnet surveillance are fundamentally different and not comparable.
If so, then it's hard to imagine how you could distinguish between those in such a way that labels the methods described in the article as dragnet surveillance, rather than non-dragnet.