Rest assured agencies in the U.S. can (and do) do all of that and more to U.S. G...

op00to · 2025-01-19T13:24:50 1737293090

> with a simple warrant

See the difference?

wildrhythms · 2025-01-19T13:49:45 1737294585

You are putting a lot of faith in the police and judges that issue those things.

thoroughburro · 2025-01-19T13:57:15 1737295035

Just a little bit more than my faith in “no oversight whatsoever”, yes.

rvnx · 2025-01-19T14:15:53 1737296153

and there is no transparency needed, warrants don't have to be public in most countries.

ceejayoz · 2025-01-19T14:34:43 1737297283

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_warrantless_surveillance_(...

Not really?

Forbo · 2025-01-19T15:48:47 1737301727

See also: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction

Americans have way more faith in America being the good guys than is warranted.

mrkramer · 2025-01-19T13:10:07 1737292207

US is liberal democracy, China is not and how much information is censored on Google.com if any? And did US government use Google to target individuals or ethnic groups within US?

wildrhythms · 2025-01-19T13:51:26 1737294686

>how much information is censored on Google.com if any?

Is this a serious question? Google removes all sorts of content from its index.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_Google#:~:text=G....

mrkramer · 2025-01-19T14:05:10 1737295510

Majority of those removals are safety removals not ideological censorship based on some socialist or whatever ideology.

jmbwell · 2025-01-19T15:46:42 1737301602

No its “intellectual property” “protection” based on some capitalist or whatever ideology

Same thing, different beneficiaries in power

mrkramer · 2025-01-19T16:32:22 1737304342

Ok so US doesn't want "socialist" influence in US and China doesn't want "capitalistic" influence in China. Eye for an eye. Problem solved.

Geezus_42 · 2025-01-19T18:57:02 1737313022

And Google gave the NSA direct connections into their data centers in order to spy on US citizens in secret.