Exactly. Consider how often cases of police officers (or even spooks; remember that they coined the term "LOVEINT" for cases of people doing exactly this) abusing their authority to spy on, stalk, and harass the objects of their a̶f̶f̶e̶c̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ obsession have come to light.
Now contemplate how many happen, but don't come to light.
As much as I want to decry TFA for fear-mongering, slippery-sloping, and straw-manning, extant — even rampant — abuses of authority give it ever so slightly too much "plausible" to dismiss out of hand.
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Exactly. Consider how often cases of police officers (or even spooks; remember that they coined the term "LOVEINT" for cases of people doing exactly this) abusing their authority to spy on, stalk, and harass the objects of their a̶f̶f̶e̶c̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ obsession have come to light.
Now contemplate how many happen, but don't come to light.
As much as I want to decry TFA for fear-mongering, slippery-sloping, and straw-manning, extant — even rampant — abuses of authority give it ever so slightly too much "plausible" to dismiss out of hand.