• Carmakazi@piefed.socialEnglish
    10·
    7 days ago

    More and more I’m coming to the opinion that national intelligence services of all countries should be completely dismantled and banned in a better world order. Having one should be seen in the same light as having a chemical weapons program.

    Their entire purpose is at best to subvert international law for cynical gain, and more realistically they are an apparatus of state terrorism. Any supposed positive could be performed by regular law enforcement or Interpol.

    • HM King Charles III DG FD@feddit.ukEnglish
      3·
      7 days ago

      This triggered me because I am a stinky conservative, but actually, I think you have a point. I can’t argue against this, except for the same thing as nuclear weapons “it’s impossible to convince everyone to dismantle their intelligence services”

      Although internal domestic intelligence such as MI5 is helpful and a good idea.

      • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.worldOP
        4·
        7 days ago

        Yeah, I think they’re an inevitable part of international relations (at least, for as long as we still have nations anyway), but one place we can and absolutely should draw the line is when these agencies start doing shit for the benefit of for profit businesses. If the CIA or frankly whoever their foreign equivalents are want to steal a foreign company’s trade secrets and publicize them for everyone to use or use them to develop some new system for a government agency I’m all for it, but if the CIA tries to hand those stolen trade secrets off to Bezos or Zuckerberg or Musk or whoever so that one of those fucks can enrich themselves with it then everyone involved should go to prison.