These cases make the headlines, but they must be casually searching electronics and getting all kinds of private data, photos, videos, etc. They unlock your phone and download everything for their amusement and to violate your rights later. The fact that they’ll fuck with a lawyer to get his client’s info says volumes about the restraint being shown.
It might still feel like everything is normal in the US, but realize that you’re living in a fascist state in its infancy. The rule of law no longer applies.
This has been the case since the Patriot Act was passed during Bush’s Presidency after 9/11.
And let’s not forget the massive civil society surveillance aparatus that Snowden revealed…
The US has been moving away from Democracy and into Authoritanism for a long time, all with full bipartisan approval.
Trump or somebody like him getting elected and taking the gloves of the whole authoritarianism aparatus that was built and supported by previous Administrations, was always going to happen.
Edit: And just like that I fuck up and reply to the wrong comment. Oh Lemmy, you always have a way of reminding me why I hate using phones to read and type.
That doesn’t answer their question, though.
The reply about NK seems out of place. Someone says a joke about strangling a [fascist] baby [in it’s state of infancy] and another mentions some event (presumably involving infanticide) happening in the most repressed and propagandized country in the world, but fails to mention what event they refer to. I am also confused…
These cases make the headlines, but they must be casually searching electronics and getting all kinds of private data, photos, videos, etc. They unlock your phone and download everything for their amusement and to violate your rights later. The fact that they’ll fuck with a lawyer to get his client’s info says volumes about the restraint being shown.
It might still feel like everything is normal in the US, but realize that you’re living in a fascist state in its infancy. The rule of law no longer applies.
This has been the case since the Patriot Act was passed during Bush’s Presidency after 9/11.
And let’s not forget the massive civil society surveillance aparatus that Snowden revealed…
The US has been moving away from Democracy and into Authoritanism for a long time, all with full bipartisan approval.
Trump or somebody like him getting elected and taking the gloves of the whole authoritarianism aparatus that was built and supported by previous Administrations, was always going to happen.
Ftfy
I hope we manage to strangle the baby sooner or later…
South Korea did it this year. The USA can do it too.
Is this a reference to something?
Edit: And just like that I fuck up and reply to the wrong comment. Oh Lemmy, you always have a way of reminding me why I hate using phones to read and type.
That doesn’t answer their question, though.The reply about NK seems out of place. Someone says a joke about strangling a [fascist] baby [in it’s state of infancy] and another mentions some event (presumably involving infanticide) happening in the most repressed and propagandized country in the world, but fails to mention what event they refer to. I am also confused…