Re:I wrote “ISIS Beer Funds” in a Venmo memo and the feds de...
by dwaltrip on Monday April 18, 2016 @06:36PM
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He's not at the airport. This is a PRIVATE communication between two individuals. It's absurd that this power is available to a government.
Re:I wrote “ISIS Beer Funds” in a Venmo memo and the feds de...
by FireBeyond on Monday April 18, 2016 @06:40PM
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Where private is defined as "financial transaction through an intermediary who is bound by several laws regarding the laundering or potential illegal use of money".
Re:I wrote “ISIS Beer Funds” in a Venmo memo and the feds de...
by dwaltrip on Monday April 18, 2016 @06:55PM
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I understand your point. However, this is the modern way of physically handing $10 bucks you owe to your friend. Similarly, a private e-mail, which is now scanned and indexed by the government along with everyone else's e-mail, is the modern equivalent of sending snail mail 50 years ago, in which there was 0% chance any higher power would have read and catalogued your letter.
We shouldn't have to live in the past because the government takes advantage of technological progress with massive power grabs. The potential for devastating abuse is so great. Imagine how this power would have been abused over the past century, if it existed then.
Re:I wrote “ISIS Beer Funds” in a Venmo memo and the feds de...
by mindslight on Monday April 18, 2016 @04:51PM
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> There isn't much incentive for TSA or OFAC agents to apply common sense or attempt to detect irony
... because they avoid responsibility for the damages of their willfully negligent actions.
Re:I wrote “ISIS Beer Funds” in a Venmo memo and the feds de...
by riprowan on Monday April 18, 2016 @05:19PM
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> There isn't much incentive for TSA or OFAC agents to apply common sense or attempt to detect irony.
Right, because every incident that they have to report and log is additional work and justification for budgetary increase.
There isn't much incentive for TSA or OFAC agents to apply common sense or attempt to detect irony. Because (1) that requires mental effort, (2) if you get it wrong and decide someone is serious when they were joking, it doesn't hurt you any other than needing to waste some time on paperwork, and (3) if you get it wrong and decide someone is joking when they were serious, then you've put people's lives in jeopardy, terminated your career, and perhaps opened yourself up for legal liability.