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Because there's a significant difference in influence I can assert to MY governmnet and a FOREIGN (which includes US) government.

Consider just a lot of US surveillance laws: we non-US citizens might as well be animals for the rights we have. Significantly different than what our own local/EU privacy laws award us.

Also it is significantly easier to take legal action againsy my own government agencies than US ones.

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Except people in CN, NZ and AU pretend they are not part of the 5 eyes and don't appeal their own govs, just complain about US. Brilliant.

Not sure about the others, but the Kiwis certainly have been appealing the government to stop spying, and questioning New Zealand's role in 5 eyes:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objecti...

CN? When did China join 5 eyes?

Oops. CA not CN, CA is the postcode for California and the TLD for Canada. Good to see some pressure applied to the NZ gov but I think Dotcom muddles things.

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