I remember this. It was seen as an extremely serious breach of trust here in Europe. I remember the media trying to downplay it and dumdums on facebook spreading nonsense like "This is nothing, everybody spies. move on, sheeesh".

This is only an acceptable state of affairs under the conditions of nationalism.

Human beings operating outside the boundaries of nationalist mental illness, do not care for this sort of behaviour one bit.

It takes a special mentality to justify this violation of human rights at a fundamental scale.

"Everyone spies" == "Everyone murders innocent people they don't like".

This is a violation of human rights, period. No nation state which engages in this activity should be taken seriously when it comes to the human rights record of their government.

Everyone spies on everyone they can spy on.

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Not exactly surprising.

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