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Re:Gov Parson pushes to prosecute reporter who found securit... by woodruffw on Thursday October 21, 2021 @12:54PM (#28947379)
> I lived in SoCal at the time and had to do the same thing. I drove about an hour and a half into the desert to get it when my name came up, and I lived in the city of San Diego.

The salient difference probably being demand (likely high in SD) versus malicious or apathetic political will.

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Re:Gov Parson pushes to prosecute reporter who found securit... by kodah on Thursday October 21, 2021 @01:50PM (#28948286)
That would be an incorrect assumption. At the time, we were still using the classification and opt-in system. The local and state governments knew exactly where demand was and wasn't.
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