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Re:Connecticut Parents Arrested for Letting Kids Walk to Dun... by mikrl on Thursday February 02, 2023 @09:11AM (#34626682)
>This is Eastern bloc level authoritarianism. Police are out of control

Outside of the Polish martial law I don’t think my family ever risked arrest for walking to a cake shop as kids.

Cannot comment on the USSR, but I highly doubt the authorities did that kind of thing either outside of, perhaps, the holodomor.

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Re:Connecticut Parents Arrested for Letting Kids Walk to Dun... by COGlory on Thursday February 02, 2023 @11:07AM (#34628521)
I was more drawing analogy between how above reproach authority was (or at least how it was portrayed to me) than about whether or not children could freely explore.
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