3 comments

  • ryandrake 1 minute ago
    Being against mass-surveillance should be a bipartisan struggle. Given our political polarization, each side is highly distrustful about what "the other side" will do with mass amounts of data about their side. This should be a cause that unites everyone.
  • codeddesign 2 minutes ago
    Why “republican” man? Editorials like this piss me off. Just say “Man from Florida”. Why bring party politics into an article that isn’t about party lines?
  • dyauspitr 14 minutes ago
    If I made an app that showed their locations and gamified knocking them out (subtly), would that get me in legal trouble?
    • anematode 3 minutes ago
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incitement#United_States

      If done obliquely enough... e.g., just making a tracker and having the ability for people to report broken cameras, you're probably fine in theory. In practice, this is a litigious society, so you'd want to build this anonymously.

    • nielsbot 6 minutes ago
      I hope a (civil rights) lawyer will reply. I’m curious too.
    • Dig1t 3 minutes ago
      Make it a web app and host it in a different country? Probably also depends on the mechanics of the game though as well..
      • cwillu 3 minutes ago
        A different country... without an extradition treaty.
    • vkou 12 minutes ago
      In a country where not attending a protest gets you 30 years in prison, and attending a protest where you set off a firework gets you 70, and where a government thug can pin you down and execute you on the sidewalk, and get recognized for his heroism and bravery... you tell me.
      • throwaway173738 7 minutes ago
        Hey if anything we should keep protesting. You should read about what the British did to Indians protesting for independence. Protest in spite of consequences is a singular act of bravery. The cops want people to give in.
      • trollbridge 9 minutes ago
        In what country did those things happen?
        • ethin 8 minutes ago
          In the United States
        • vkou 7 minutes ago
          The United States, the first two in Texas and the latter in Minnesota.

          In that bit, an unarmed man was murdered, the killers scatter like roaches, the federal police is covering for them, while actively preventing the state from giving the guilty a fair trial and a swift sentencing and imprisonment.

          (What they did is a state crime with a maximum penalty of life imprisonment, and also a federal crime that carries the death penalty.)

          • parineum 2 minutes ago
            > ... while actively preventing the state from giving the guilty a fair trial

            Interesting.

            • vkou 0 minutes ago
              Anyone with eyes can see that those fucks are guilty.

              As everyone else, though, they deserve a fair trial where that guilt could be proven beyond a reasonable doubt.