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user-inactivated  ·  2887 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A Yale history professor’s powerful, 20-point guide to defending democracy under a Trump presidency

As if I needed more reasons to not like this country.

It's all weird power moves from Russia. I mean, it's quite cool of it to use cyberwarfare for its benefit, but - for Christ's sake, to what end? Power? Control? Money? It makes no sense to me. If you want to effectively seize control of another country - which, from what I hear, is Russia's apparent plan - why would you do it before taking care of your own?

Also, those aren't "my" spy services: they're Russian government's. I'd like not to be affiliated with what the current government does. When the country I live in decides to openly spy on its people, it's not something I would support.

By the way, the Yarovaya laws? the ones that require mobile carriers to store data from the services they provide for six months? They remain unchanged after whoever takes care of it in Russia had a hearing about possible changing them.