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contourtrails on May 5, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: NSA collected 500M U.S. call records in 2017, a sh...

>"What does the NSA so? Who are they protecting?

You're comitting a logical fallacy. You think just because bad things sometimes do happen to US citizens that the NSA clearly isn't doing anything....

Clearly faulty logic. I'm glad the NSA exists because there are bad actors out there and we need informed law enforcement to protect us.

jstanley on May 5, 2018 [–]

You're committing exactly the same logical fallacy.

You think just because it sometimes helps against bad actors that the NSA is a net force for good.

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