cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14393091

NSA ’just days from taking over the internet’ warns Edward Snowden

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SCARY HEADLINE— oh. It’s just the US again. Not literally the whole internet.

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Good thing that all of the giant monolithic internet companies that the NSA will be using for surveillance are used exclusively by Americans. The NSA isn’t interested in foreign intel anyway. /s

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These monolithic internet companies all have entities in other countries and are beholden to laws of said countries.

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The NSA violates the laws of the US. What makes you think they care about other countries’ laws?

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It’s true, people living in Russia and China will safe from this.

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