Do the police show up if you don’t register in Other countries they do in China.

> Do the police show up if you don’t register in the United States?

I think that response is moving the goalpost.

I noted that it's common throughout the world that hotels often require passport details. Your response to that is to change the issue in question to the consequences of non-compliance and away from what you initially presented as the problem ("you must register your passport or state ID").

Goalpost? What is your goal? I was sharing my personal experience in traveling to China - being in a society with no notion of Human Rights, because someone asked.

Is your goal to argue? I don't get it.

>Goalpost? What is your goal?

His goal is to point out that you said "in China they tell you you need to register at hotels", and when he answered that that's the case in the US and other countries too, you expanded your question to "Does the police show up if you don’t register in Other countries they do in China".

That's normally called "moving the goalposts".

Now you're implying that they have some further motive, or just "want to agree".

Well, they wanted to point a flaw in your original argument (that implied it's somehow unique to China to have you register at hotels). Are they allowed to?

I’ve seen it in the fine print reserving the right to enter hotel room at any time. Police don’t need warrants for hotel rooms either.

More misinformation. Police most definitely need a search warrant for your hotel room, as they would for your home.

https://www.wklaw.com/do-police-need-a-warrant-to-search-my-...

That's interesting, but in practice, since the hotel has the right to enter the room at any time, and no hotel is going to piss off the police department (whom they also rely on to remove troublesome guests), the hotel can just let the police in.

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