“By partnering with vetted United States companies subject to the direction and oversight of the Federal Government, we will enhance our ability to counter [transnational criminal organizations’] threats and combat transnational cybercrime, fraud, and other predatory schemes against American citizens,” the memo said.
    • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      3 days ago

      the entire genre is becoming a how-to manual for all western liberal democracies like 1984, animal farm, and idiocracy has become.

  • davel@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    4 days ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_of_marque

    A letter of marque and reprisal was a government license in the Age of Sail that authorized a private person, known as a privateer or corsair, to attack and capture vessels of a foreign state at war with the issuer, licensing international military operations against a specified enemy as reprisal for a previous attack or injury. Captured naval prizes were judged before the government’s admiralty court for condemnation and transfer of ownership to the privateer.