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Such short-sighted outcries do not help. He should first consider asking people to stop using US-made, closed source operating systems. Then he should ask Germany's secret service (BND) what they are doing with the data from DE-CIX (e.g. sharing with the NSA ...).

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Of course it fucking helps. Every step helps. Your suggestion is so useless to be irritating. "Oh, we can't say anything because there might be some asshole on the internet who could make it sound hypocritical. We best just keep doing fuck all because that's worked so well thus far".

It does not expletive help to make the problem sound smaller than it actually is, which is precisely what he did with his dumb advice.

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