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The current federal government in the USA actively encourages federal agents to use illegal and unethical methods, and promised them protection and immunity.

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State governments too. I heard a state judge once say "Of course police are permitted to break the law if they are investigating criminals."

The current federal government of France? Of the EU? The article is not about the USA.

> The current federal government of France? Of the EU? The article is not about the USA.

Are you sure ? They say in the article that they were not able to fing out who sent the email. Site was behind Cloudfare (so US).

Does Cloudflare only allow US customers?

The FBI is the primary party appearing to be in this investigation, and to the best of my knowledge are both of the US (govt), and are federal. (I'm not a US person so please correct me if I'm wrong.)

Isn't a simpler explanation that the FBI was co-opted in the same way as Adguard, rather than that the FBI is masterminding the scheme?

This article is specifically an article about an investigation by the FBI- US federal agents.

The article mentions the FBI investigation but is not about that. This article is about a pressure campaign, the letter Web Abuse Association Defense sent to adguard making threats under french law and adguard's investigation in response to that letter.

A French organization with an English name, writing in English? J'en doute.

Very many European citizens speak English and it's the lingua franca* of the Internet.

It was exceptionally clear from reading their writing, they are NOT native English speakers.

It seems 57% of people in France can speak English, which I can easily believe:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-s...

No reason to doubt this is coming from a French person.

Which was what my parent comment referred to. Comments replying to mine act like it's unreasonable for me to talk about US federal agents in the context of this subject, when those are what the article mentions specifically, many times.

France doesn't have a federal government, as it's not a federation.

Yes, I know that.

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