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> That isn't a far comparison to make because the British government taking my stuff deprives me of that very stuff. The US government making a copy of my digital stuff doesn't deprive me of my digital stuff.

So, "Information wants to be secretly collected?" That has a certain symmetry to it.

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This sounds like the "information want's to be free" argument people use here to justify copying movies and music, shouldn't it also then apply to your phonecall data? It's all just bits right?

Sure, but those making that argument would be right to point out the NSA should be releasing all their data under the same logic.

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