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		moloch on Nov 15, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Jeremy Hammond sentenced to 10 years for Stratfor ... > "Uncovering pedophiles on the Internet is impossible without mass surveillance of the Internet" Didn't realize the TV show "To Catch a Predator" did mass surveillance of the internet, NBC is taking investigative journalism to an extreme.

andrewfong on Nov 15, 2013 [–]

That's sort of the point. When someone justifies an action because it's "impossible" to stop bad thing X without doing morally questionable thing Y, be skeptical.

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