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This is old news. It was first revealed in 2004.

The existence of the US government's looking into such a program or even having a small version of it isn't surprising.

What would be interesting in a bad way would be if the US government was using it at anywhere near the scale of the Chinese government.

Agreed, with both of you. I like this hackernews forum, as false arguments tend to be articulately called out and discussed.

The irony of the thread is that the fundamental debate is about if such a forum should be allowed to exist without government mediation and control.