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		JeremyNT 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Journalists wary of travelling to US due to Palant... They've had these authoritarian toys for a while, but they've been careful to use them more subtly in the past. This administration is, as with everything else, discarding the "norms" based restraint that previously applied to their use.

AndrewKemendo 8 months ago [–]

Fully disagree. This was entirely what snowden was trying to make public and he was a broken record on precisely what I described above.

Everything I wrote can be validated that it was available for the world to see by 2013.

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