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The thing about Europe: it's the actual land of the free now

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160 points cruzcampo | 2 comments | 4/11/2025, 8:04:00 AM | HN request time: 0.423s | source
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fedorvin ◴[4/11/2025, 11:47:00 AM] No.43652771[source]▶

Europe is not a single country. Some of them are more free then others. For example: Germany monitors all of your internet traffic and can give you fines over it. classifying a panopticon as "free" is insane.

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verzali ◴[4/11/2025, 1:20:00 PM] No.43653457[source]▶

Do you really think the American government isn't monitoring your Internet traffic?

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fedorvin ◴[4/11/2025, 2:14:00 PM] No.43654050[source]▶

Im not American:)

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1. nprateem ◴[4/11/2025, 2:41:00 PM] No.43654345[source]▶

So?

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2. fedorvin ◴[4/11/2025, 3:15:00 PM] No.43654774[source]▶

I never said that the US is free in any way