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> goveenment paranoia

This is just what you'd expect any government that is either competent or greedy to be doing, given the technologies at play.

Calling it "thought crime" is, of course, a bit glib. But things like "we want to monitor the communications of every pro Palestinian university student so we can take proactive disruptive actions" are very real and not so hidden desires and sentiments of modern Western governments.



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