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<blockquote> "When our engineers work tirelessly to improve security, we imagine we're protecting you against criminals, not our own government," Zuckerberg wrote </blockquote>

Small correction: The US government ARE the criminals you need to protect against.

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As usual, facebook PR is fallacious. Naively pretending they don't know governments are historically often engaging in criminal activities to draw attention away from the fact facebook is a massive surveillance too, one that past political regimes could only dream about, which by some kind of magic should be acceptable on grounds that it is done by a private corporation for commercial profit.

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