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In reply to the discussion: US & NSA Accused of Criminal Privacy Violations in Dozens of Nations [View all]TheKentuckian
(26,314 posts)Now, we must hope they all remember to press their own governments as well and make it a global push.
China and the US are too entwined and seem to be melding philosophically, mostly going for the worst parts en route to a hell of an evil clusterfuck. Maybe, nothing complex or even active just a borrowing of ideas and approaches to make hay on some long term goals to perfect already effective systems for those ambitions.
This could be turn out to be a better than average chance to move the needle in a world wide way on this critical civil liberty and in turn other natural rights would assert themselves.
Wouldn't be easy and most likely would have unintended and unexpected side effects but not much is worth more and it will be pretty tough not to advance the understanding that we are all in this together.
What a powerful possibility! No matter how plausible there is potential of some sort and real growth is in it.