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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I wish we would, but on the other hand, not being a totalitarian regime is kind of the reason why it's better here. Damned if you you, damned if you don't.

[–] TheBat 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Protecting citizens' interests is not totalitarian.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If it was about protecting citizens interests, PRISM would have been declared illegal and disbanded, not hushed and expanded.

[–] TheBat -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] force 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] TheBat 1 points 8 months ago

Read the whole comment chain again. The other guy said 'it should be ok for Europeans to ban US social media'. I said 'do it'. And they then replied about totalitarianism.

So the mention of PRISM confused me because I was talking about EU countries banning facebook and Instagram to protect their citizens.