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Defendant Admitted That He Conspired to Act as an Illegal Agent of the Chinese Government

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[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 48 points 2 weeks ago

I understand why it was a terrible thing for the people in charge of America's intelligence services to have absolutely no moral compass and a sick sense of humor, but every so often, it would be a funny thing to bring that ethos back for things like this.

Before they made the indictments, they should have done the exact same thing in some Chinese city. Round up a few dozen random Chinese citizens for copyright infringement for producing bootleg movies or something, get them back to the US on a charter flight before anyone really knows what's happening, and then indict the people in NYC. Lay the whole thing out and just publicly ask the Chinese government if this is how we want to do it, or if we all can agree to keep our state organs to ourselves again.

I'm joking, mostly. I don't think it's a good idea. But it would get the point across. A notable thing that happens when you start being all procedures-based is that the people who don't go by procedures start to get the upper hand.

[–] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 29 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

So...

We're assuming it's the only one?

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 9 points 2 weeks ago

lol, no. I'm making no such assumption.

[–] arin@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Read, the other is awaiting trial

[–] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago

I meant den of criminals, not... perpetrators in this individual instance.

duh

[–] TheTetrapod@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You thought this person was randomly referring to another human as "it"?

[–] arin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Gender neutral

[–] evujumenuk@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

"I'm allowed to do this… This place is literally named Chinatown"

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 weeks ago

No terrorism charge?

...

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 4 points 2 weeks ago

I first heard about stuff like this on Darknet Diaries

https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/21/

Highly recommend this podcast's Black Duck Eggs episode if you want to lean more about how China controls its citizens abroad