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RajT88yesterday at 11:50 PM1 replyview on HN

It breaks my heart that the governments with unlimited budgets who have hired the best and brightest will have to put in serious effort to get the bad guys, and potentially find it not worth it to casually spy on the whole world.

I am just beside myself at such an idea that people looking to feed the prison machine cannot as easily find excuses to turn normal citizens into prison feed.

Just super sad guys.


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xp84today at 12:12 AM

> excuses to turn normal citizens into prison feed

What felonies are those normal citizens being convicted of that's landed them in prison?

I get the basic 'not wanting everyone's comms to be monitored' part. I think there's an important conversation to be had because indeed, that can't be the answer.

But it sounds like you're saying most people who are convicted of felonies based on a jury unanimously being convinced by the electronic evidence against them... those people are unjustly in prison?

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