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    1 year ago

    It also represented a tipping point for personal rights in the western world. Wholesale spying was something that “evil commies” did, and Intelligence agencies had to at least obscure their attempts at spying on their own citizens. Nowadays you have some western governments basically saying that the Stasi didn’t go far enough.