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Top Senator Warns Sweeping New Surveillance Powers Will “Inevitably Be Misused” by Trump
(theintercept.com)
this post was submitted on 19 Dec 2024
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I think non-software people call this getting their face eaten by leopards.
Our "left"-centre government party here in Germany is still trying to pass the next version of a surveillance bill, which has been struck down multiple times for being unconstitutional over the years. All the while, it is getting more and more likely that we will have our own neo-nazis in power next year.
wym neo, west germany never got rid of the og nazis in the first place https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Heusinger
It is amazing you don’t see it is all an act to pass and divide the blame