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Re:Agents raid home of fired Florida data scientist who buil... by jariel on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @05:58PM (#25352706)
1) The article clearly makes a distinction between the types of warrants.

Serving warrants in general dangerous, point blank - and even 'white collar criminals' who don't answer the door are giving indication that something may be up.

It's 100% reasonable for the police to have their weapons upholstered at that point and well within reasonable SOP.

2) There's no evidence of corruption on behalf of the officials in Florida - this is the continued misrepresentation of some in the press, and easy echo-chamber populism.

There as an argument over how data should be represented; disagreeing with your employer is not 'whistleblowing'.

Again - Florida releases considerably more detailed information than they do in any province in Canada and somehow, everyone seems to think that we are doing 'such a great job in governance'.

The overall level of wilful ignorance on these nuanced incidents in shameful. Even so-called smart people believe what their emotional triggers and biases want them to believe.

I'm looking forward to hearing what the courts have to say about it.

Re:Agents raid home of fired Florida data scientist who buil... by jkhdigital on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @09:14PM (#25354532)
I think this story might be the case study I use to open a discussion about news bias with my 66 year old father. We live in FL and I had a brief discussion with him sometime during the summer about our state's pandemic response. He mentioned something about the governor trying to hide data, and I was like “...huh?” and after hearing this story today I connected the dots.