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Comment by gtirloni | Hacker News Reader

That wouldn't be more patriotic if by being patriotic you mean helping your fellowmen and not the current establishment.

However, it'd make more sense to help your own establishment vs a foreign one.

MS being a global company, one has to wonder how much MS HQ can prevent other branches from engaging in very lucrative projects like that.

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I think your sarcasm detector is malfunctioning today.

The rule of internet sarcasm is at least one person will reply in earnest given a large enough audience.

The "rule of internet sarcasm" doesn't exist, because that implies there is a single rule as opposed to several or none. Excuse you.

Your comment proves the rule, FYI.

I think they meant that as a joke :)

No I was and am completely serious. This is how I go through life.

Wanna come to my party?

I don't understand your comment neither the downvotes. The comment I was replying to was criticizing the government for wanting national companies to help it, which I think is the reality in all countries.

Either way, good reply. /s

Zing!

Also, the government didn't knock Microsoft for not helping spy on U.S. citizens— they were mad that they helped the Chinese spy on their own citizens, which they asserted was morally wrong enough to be considered a human rights abuse. My response was not "criticizing the government for wanting national companies to help it," I was criticizing them for having a two-faced stance on governments surveilling their own citizens.

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