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For anyone still wondering why the snooper charter is a very very bad idea... and this is only a single problem out of a huge list.
Here's what to expect:

https://www.wired.com/2013/09/...
http://animalnewyork.com/2014/...
http://www.kiro7.com/news/inve...
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news...
http://wncn.com/2016/02/10/nc-...
https://psmag.com/when-your-st...

https://www.techdirt.com/artic...

Most of these are coming directly from security agencies and the police itself, but what do people think will happen once ISPs and multiple governmental agencies are able to log content from Internet users? Be prepared folks. It's not about only about you doing bad and questionable things. It's specially about all the people with access to your private lives willing to ruin it or turn it into a profitable business.

You're missing the point. I'm not trying to defend what the US has done here, nor am I trying to equate German political scandals with American ones -- and the fact that I can't find an equivalent German scandal says a lot of good things about Germany. But celebrating the failures of somebody else's country is pretty close to what the Germans call schaedenfreude, and what Americans call "a dick move". Let Americans put up their own Snowden statues.

Maybe not de jure required, but certainly de facto .

... by a Russian (written in English), here: http://www.animalnewyork.com/2012/russian-dashcam/ Highly recommended to read - it's a fascinating article, with several other video examples too.

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"The only reason they're working to resolve it is because of Kevin Smith. If it was a nobody with no platform to mention this from, Slashdot would've cared much less."

Seriously did everyone not see the infamous photo of the guy hanging half way into the aisle, that is what started a lot of this.

http://animalnewyork.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/fat_guy-300x300-295x295.jpg