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Re:Citizen CEO offered to personally fund LA arson manhunt f... by spamizbad on Friday May 21, 2021 @02:33PM (#27238023)
Some people in the US do not consider vigilantism to be antisocial behavior.

For example, in my neighborhood a few people freaked out over a guy going through people's trash cans (trash cans are located in the alley, so not on anyone's property). This involved lots of internet sturm und drang, with people arguing whether or not it's legal to shoot someone going through your trash.

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Re:Citizen CEO offered to personally fund LA arson manhunt f... by colejohnson66 on Friday May 21, 2021 @04:31PM (#27239556)
It’s... trash. While it’s not an elegant thing to dig through trash, what’s wrong with someone doing it? You threw it away which means you don’t care what happens to it, right?
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Re:Citizen CEO offered to personally fund LA arson manhunt f... by thereare5lights on Friday May 21, 2021 @04:54PM (#27239839)
It's a rather large privacy violation
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Re:Citizen CEO offered to personally fund LA arson manhunt f... by spamizbad on Friday May 21, 2021 @09:35PM (#27242358)
It can be but this person was searching for cans not identity theft or stalker stuff. Also: if they were sniffing around for that stuff, killing them on public property when they pose no immediate threat to you or anyone else isn’t the answer.
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Re:Citizen CEO offered to personally fund LA arson manhunt f... by HarryHirsch on Saturday May 22, 2021 @10:00AM (#27246604)
Your neighbours are sick in the head.
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