Any public media entity represents enormous power - and by definition will involve agencies of all kinds from all over.
Foreign actors will absolutely leverage the situation to the maximum extent possible and this is a fact irrespective of claims made by CIA/FBI to justify their existence.
Even the Canadian government has finally admitted publicly that the Chinese government is doing 'full court press' inside the country including having literal Chinese Police Stations hidden within Canada. It's perverse.
And of course, that's just the 'big actor' issue - there are legitimately a lot of small time bad people using these systems. Like they would any other.
We should expect the government to do it's job - meaning that the 'story' should be about 'where the lines are' not 'that they exist'.
Judicial oversight, proportionality, proper procedure, some mechanism for public oversight, lawfulness ... those are the issues.
I'm glad for this bit of transparency because it probably helps us to parse the system a bit to see what's what ... but I suggest that we ought to be vigilant about the nuances, not the ideology. Putin and Xi will forevermore attempt to dust things up, and the CIA/FBI are known to overstep their bounds ... but there's a legit reason those agencies exist so we probably should focus on a way to make it work in a way that preserves freedom, lawfulness, basic civic virtues and common sense.
Foreign actors will absolutely leverage the situation to the maximum extent possible and this is a fact irrespective of claims made by CIA/FBI to justify their existence.
Even the Canadian government has finally admitted publicly that the Chinese government is doing 'full court press' inside the country including having literal Chinese Police Stations hidden within Canada. It's perverse.
And of course, that's just the 'big actor' issue - there are legitimately a lot of small time bad people using these systems. Like they would any other.
We should expect the government to do it's job - meaning that the 'story' should be about 'where the lines are' not 'that they exist'.
Judicial oversight, proportionality, proper procedure, some mechanism for public oversight, lawfulness ... those are the issues.
I'm glad for this bit of transparency because it probably helps us to parse the system a bit to see what's what ... but I suggest that we ought to be vigilant about the nuances, not the ideology. Putin and Xi will forevermore attempt to dust things up, and the CIA/FBI are known to overstep their bounds ... but there's a legit reason those agencies exist so we probably should focus on a way to make it work in a way that preserves freedom, lawfulness, basic civic virtues and common sense.