Re:Slack Removed a Blog Post Showing How Police Use Its Tech
by lm28469 on Friday June 05, 2020 @02:13PM
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>We can condemn the police and hold them to the much higher bar they should be held to, and also condemn whatever looting and vandalism is occurring. "Two wrongs" etc.
I do condemn both, but you have to remember that one caused the other and one is a matter of your country becoming an authoritarian police state, not the other.
I'd take temporary riots over permanent US style law enforcement abuse. In a perfect world I'd be happy with none of the two but were not in a perfect world.
Re:Slack Removed a Blog Post Showing How Police Use Its Tech
by anigbrowl on Friday June 05, 2020 @01:56PM
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If someone creates a new account in order to make one post based on a screamingly obvious fallacy they deserve what they get.
Re:Slack Removed a Blog Post Showing How Police Use Its Tech
by anticonformist on Friday June 05, 2020 @03:40PM
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Just because you claim it to be false does not make it false. You could be wrong.
So what exactly does someone "deserve" for expressing a contrary opinion?
I think it's fair for someone on the fence, or visiting the conversation from the other side, to comment on the crimes of both sides without fear of being personally insulted on HN.
We can condemn the police and hold them to the much higher bar they should be held to, and also condemn whatever looting and vandalism is occurring. "Two wrongs" etc.