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> guys it was lifted

After 2.5 years... Let's not pretend like this is some major success. It's a failure by all accounts that luckily ended up OK.

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Compared to illegal mass surveillance programs that remain running to this day, and a witty intelligence head who remains free after lying under oath, this is a shinning success that should be celebrated.

Hopefully other nations follow their lead one day.

Turkish authorities don't have global tech giants to tap into, but worry not, they're monitoring the internet very closely. In fact, they arrest people over tweets criticizing their rule. [0] And of course they block Wikipedia country–wide, over what Donald Trump would call "fake news" (as he does with news outlets revealing embarrassing facts about him or his administration). Not an example to be followed by any government on Earth.

[0] https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/03/27/turkey-crackdown-social-...

I think grandparent was not about having surveillance programs or not, but about whether the government is being held accountable to it's own laws. A quality that is worryingly slipping in several nations. Hence the emphasis on 'illegal' and the shoddy investigation with little follow-up.

Whataboutism.

Sir, this is a news website.

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