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Re:Governor vows criminal prosecution of reporter who found ... by merpnderp on Thursday October 14, 2021 @02:32PM (#28868089)
It isn't stupidity. Government officials know this kind of thing will ultimately be a loser for them. But they know the mere threat of putting someone through the process of prosecution is punishment enough.

This is what we need to work on correcting. If a judge laughs your case out of court, there should be a severe penalty, especially if you're the government.

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Re:Governor vows criminal prosecution of reporter who found ... by hn_throwaway_99 on Thursday October 14, 2021 @06:59PM (#28871357)
> It isn't stupidity.

Hard disagree. If you're arguing that it's malice, and not stupidity, on the part of governor and others that put out this nonsense, then at least they are surely depending on the stupidity of their constituents at large for not laughing them out of office.

And to be clear, I'm not at all taking the position that people who don't have a deep depth of technology are stupid. But pretty much everyone in the US knows how to use a web browser these days, and believing people will buy the governor's completely lobotomized argument [1] is totally embarrassing, either for the governor or his constituents that elected him.

1. https://twitter.com/GovParsonMO/status/1448750830857904129

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