Re:The FBI is secretly using Sabre as a global travel survei...
by asveikau on Monday July 20, 2020 @10:29PM
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I seem to recall hearing similar claims made about Iraq War protests circa 2003. People said mysterious agents rounded up people in vans and released them without explanation. I have no mainstream sources that back that up, just a claim I heard made at the time and later, by partisans. Have no idea if it's true or not.
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Re:The FBI is secretly using Sabre as a global travel survei...
by jacobush on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @04:02AM
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The 2003 protests were in a weird time. The Internet was a thing, yet the old media still controlled the image to a large extent. There were hundreds of thousands of protestors in large cities, but it was pretty consistently under-reported.
Today it would be impossible to ignore something that big, it would show up on social media.
To people arguing these are "arrests", well funny the arrested are just let go when they ask for a lawyer. It's an intimidation tactic. The rubberhosing and disappearing will come too, when that's deemed an acceptable intimidation tactic.
It's going to backfire in cities with popular support for the protests: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onmsFzEtK7U