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Comment by gruez

9 hours ago

>> allow private entities to do things we don’t allow government to do.

>Somehow this reminds me about Blackwater / Xe Technologies? :-/

Is there some context I'm missing? Skimming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwater_(company) it shows they might have perpetrated some war crimes, but that alone doesn't really make them worse than the US military. For instance, consider https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,_2007,_Baghdad_airstri....