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The government hasn't searched nor seized anything. This is identical to if somebody found out your favorite color is Blue, gave that info to a newspaper reporter, and the newspaper sold the information on the street for a nickle a paper. The government bought one of the papers.

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I'm not sure how you equate agencies like the FBI and CIA with newspapers.

Seems like a really weak argument from here.

One is a commercial venture with zero license to kill or interfere with foreign political processes.

The FBI and CIA are newspaper readers in this analogy.

It's a newspaper that isn't affordable to the majority of the public, doesn't do any advertising to the public, nor does the public even know about it.

Not a great analogy really.

Actually it is affordable to the majority of the public. It’s quite cheap to buy a dossier on a person, like $5-25.

If LN allowed it, the general public could afford to run as much as they like.

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