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Re:The US Is Openly Stockpiling Dirt on All Its Citizens by mc32 on Monday June 12, 2023 @05:18PM (#36301289)
That guy who was tracking celebrities's plane traffic and publishing on TWTTR could instead do this. Automatically and repeatedly publish legally obtained data on all politicians fed, state and local. Now that would constitute a public service.
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Re:The US Is Openly Stockpiling Dirt on All Its Citizens by nickpeterson on Monday June 12, 2023 @05:21PM (#36301336)
Except they would make that illegal for politicians and let us all twist in the wind.
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Re:The US Is Openly Stockpiling Dirt on All Its Citizens by vharuck on Monday June 12, 2023 @11:08PM (#36304671)
I wonder if the Equal Protections Clause of the 14th Amendment could be used to knock down these "for everyone but us" caveats.
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