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Indeed. 2020 has never made https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor more relevant. People want to see conspiracies and patterns in everything. There's probably some truth to some of it, but I'd bet a lot of money most of it is just the result of people bumbling around and trying to cover their own asses.

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It's a conspiracy that the U.S. government spies on its citizens via technology companies? And that there is a clear national security interest in preventing foreign adversaries from doing the same??

It's as if we learned absolutely nothing from Snowden.

No, I don't think it's pure conspiracy. Hence, "some truth". I do think that

> America's goal is not to protect Americans' privacy. It is to protect its own monopoly on violations of Americans' privacy.

Is a gross overstatement, though.

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