• archonet
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    3 hours ago

    not at all arguing this is okay, not even a little

    but

    If you are the French government, and you know what the French populace has a history of doing to the French government, it would be understandable to want to keep your eye on them, no?

    again. It ain’t cool. But I’m honestly surprised they didn’t hop on the “intrusive surveillance” bandwagon sooner, like, as soon as mass surveillance became feasible, and have the privacy laws they do.

    • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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      58 minutes ago

      … like this sort of activity by the government is totally unrelated to why and when the French populace get a little snip-snip with members of the government.