Re:Police surveilled protests with help from Twitter-affilia...
by darawk on Thursday July 09, 2020 @08:17PM
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Well if you're willing to accept that the government should not keep tabs on racist organizations or militias, then I guess we've cashed out our disagreement to terminal values. We'll just have to agree to disagree.
Re:Police surveilled protests with help from Twitter-affilia...
by seph-reed on Thursday July 09, 2020 @08:55PM
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You can think whatever you want. You can even think it with a bunch of people and hopefully not have to feel scared to think whatever is you will think, nor fear talking about whatever is you want to talk about. Even if that thing has something to do with creating real, actual change within our lifetimes.
Re:Police surveilled protests with help from Twitter-affilia...
by squeaky-clean on Friday July 10, 2020 @12:14AM
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I see you post on forums involving hackers and encryption. We're just going to keep tabs on you and other potential members of your militia, ok?
Re:Police surveilled protests with help from Twitter-affilia...
by pnako on Friday July 10, 2020 @04:52AM
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I suspect you're just disagreeing on what "keeping tabs" actually means.
The government shouldn't put someone under (specific|personal) surveillance without strong evidence of course. But I don't see what prevents them from reading twitter, going into public chat rooms, etc.
Inevitably, the microscopic amount of good that could be done would be vastly outweighed by the chilling effect on every group that was trying to create positive change at the expense of the oligarchy. Aka: true patriots.