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>These laws exist to promote free thought. They punish those who seek to pry into our most private spaces and turn America into a place like East Germany.

If you're going to argue that journalists blowing the whistle on the private conversations of the ultra-rich and powerful about how to reign in journalism with the Stasi, that's a great recipe for getting people sold on the idea that privacy itself is a tool used by the powerful to escape scrutiny.

It reminds me of that bit in the Silicon valley TV show (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5zQpN28xa4)



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