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Re:Police playing music while being filmed, seemingly to tri... by dghlsakjg on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @06:24PM (#26083898)
Filming police activity, and posting the footage has been continuously upheld as a first amendment protected activity. If these claims are true then the police (acting as the government) are attempting to restrict free speech.

If the cops are dumb enough to have put this in writing (most cops generally forget that text messages are admissable in court), it would seem that the government is intentionally restricting free speech.

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Re:Police playing music while being filmed, seemingly to tri... by HarryHirsch on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @07:08PM (#26084278)
Apparently, the suggestion of playing music to defeat witnesses was made in some warrior cop training seminar. What to do about that? They are training cops to defeat the constitution using copyright filters, that can't be right.
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Re:Police playing music while being filmed, seemingly to tri... by stale2002 on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @09:28PM (#26085134)
No, this is not them restricting free speech in the same way that if the cop walked away he would be restricting anyone's free speech.

You can film them all you want, but they aren't forced to stand there. They can go away if they like.

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