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> In Dr. Xi’s case, Mr. Zeidenberg said, the authorities saw emails to scientists in China and assumed the worst.

> About a dozen F.B.I. agents, some with guns drawn, stormed Dr. Xi’s home in the Philadelphia suburbs in May, searching his house just after dawn...

How did they see the emails? Was it mass surveillance or did someone complain to the FBI?

Arrests based on the mass surveillance of millions of people is far scarier than arrests based on sincere accusations from concerned citizens.

parent staunch 11 years ago

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