Regarding similar posts, and given the recent outcry over many things, think about this before you waste your time yelling and screaming:
If the government of ANY country REALLY wanted one of their citizens monitored/imprisoned/”disappeared”/dead, do you think “legality” would be a stopping point? Look at history and think about human nature, add a dose of common sense and realize that the answer is a great big fat “NO”.
Is that an endorsement? NO, just as great big and fat.
As a hero once said: “I was not attempting to evaluate its moral implications…”
It’s a statement of fact. At most, legality/illegality is a major and annoying “inconvenience”, if/when it comes down to that.
So, instead of WASTING your time arguing about an issue of legality that, even if solved to your complete pleasure, would have absolutely no practical effect other than to make you feel better about yourself and allow you to THINK “things are ok now” in bliss, spend that time doing something that has an actual, practical, undeniably REAL good effect: help people in need, help animals, help a worthy charity, take the time you spend venting and spend it on being good to the people you love…just an idea.
Or, to put it into simple flow chart format for the CA/A’s:
Best outcome:
1) Law passed banning all unauthorized X (let’s say, monitoring)
2) Overt reaction: law is followed
3) Covert reaction: law is followed/ignored as deemed necessary
4) If re-discovered: outrage is feigned, people are fired.
5) Go back to 2
-Puppy >.< Yip!