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So US/AU government backdooring AU citizens is okay, but if China has access it's bad? People actually think like this now? We just collectively rolled over an
by lx3459683 8y ago
So US/AU government backdooring AU citizens is okay, but if China has access it's bad?
People actually think like this now? We just collectively rolled over and accepted mass surveillance?
- zby 8y agoEven not looking on the democratic/dictatorship spectrum - outside interference will always be worse than what you get from insiders. Insiders at least depend on the country welfare - outsiders just don't give a fuck.
- close04 8y agoAnd the US is an insider for AU... how? Because if the NSA brought any revelation it's that the US backdoored even their allies without them knowing. I get choosing the least evil but this is a defense only as much as burning dows a building and saying "at least this little piece survived" is a defense.
- vermilingua 8y agoNope, FVEY was conducted very much with cooperation between the involved parties. We (Aus) have very close structural and cultural ties to the US, but China is approximately as foreign as it gets. The US may not be an insider per se, but in theory we share at least some core values. (Not to say that I personally am ok with any of it, but from a societal perspective it makes a little sense.)
- BLKNSLVR 8y agoBut Australia's economic health relies far more on trade with China than it does with the US.
- BLKNSLVR 8y agoI like the idea I've seen proposed elsewhere, that I'd rather be spied on by a government entity that's no allied with my government. Less chance of being black-bagged. Luckily I'm an exceedingly boring person, so it won't happen either way, but it's still an interesting, and valid, point of view (pending ones travel plans).