Comment by coliveira
4 months ago
It's a criminal scheme to spy on law enforcement. Both the company and the scheming country are committing crimes.
4 months ago
It's a criminal scheme to spy on law enforcement. Both the company and the scheming country are committing crimes.
Can a country commit a crime?
No, it's the government that commits it.
People use the country = government metaphor as a shortcut for communication, but this one takes it further than usual.
> country = government metaphor
This will probably never be particularly useful, but this figure of speech is a "synecdoche" (a "metonymy" instead of a "metaphor")
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Extradition by tectonic subduction
spy on law enforcement that spy on your government, seem like a fair game
Does that apply for China, Russia, North Korea, Iran, Venezuela, Brazil and so on?
That's how competition works, yes.
This is not about spying, but fighting money laundering, persecuting war criminals, even common crimes.
To spy on law enforcement that is trying to fight crime is not a good thing. Israel is not the world police.