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>>This is specially offensive to the rest of the world.
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>As I read it, they just gave up.

As I read it, giving up and making some public statement about it was only as much as they could do without violating any secret court orders.

>Is the rest of the world offended by the people who gave up, or by the people who got them to give up?

By the police state laws that affect countries not involved at all.

>And.. who is the rest of the world? China? Russia? India?

And another hundred countries, who get to suffer from this extension of american jurisdiction.

>Those 3 countries account for a whole lot of land mass and billions of people.
>Are they offended?
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>Frankly, I'm not impressed by people who start a movement and then take their marbles home because the other guy isn't playing fair.

Would you be impressed if they called for a revolution instead?