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Re:Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is bei... by sp332 on Saturday December 06, 2025 @11:03AM (#46174331)
In New Hampshire, we banned both public and private ALPRs. You can see on the map that the only ones are at toll booths. Those got explicit exemptions in the law.
Re:Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is bei... by dehrmann on Saturday December 06, 2025 @12:02PM (#46174799)
Isn't that the state with license plates that say "live free or die?" Unless, of course, you have a moral objection to that statement, cf. Wooley v. Maynard.
Re:Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is bei... by RobotCaleb on Saturday December 06, 2025 @12:38PM (#46175080)
I'm sure that's their state license plate motto regardless of your moral objection
Re:Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is bei... by monerozcash on Saturday December 06, 2025 @01:50PM (#46175637)
In Wooley v. Maynard SCOTUS held that NH could not require it's citizens to use a license plate displaying the state motto.
Re:Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is bei... by RobotCaleb on Saturday December 06, 2025 @02:53PM (#46176121)
It's still their license plate motto and it's still not dependent on your moral objection
Re:Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is bei... by monerozcash on Saturday December 06, 2025 @03:09PM (#46176240)
Do you see anyone claiming the opposite? The point is that they will not write the motto on your license plate if you object.

I get that HN attracts a certain amount of pedantry, but I can't figure out what exactly you're even trying to be pedantic about. There's not single comment here that could be reasonably interpreted as suggesting that "live free or die" isn't their motto

Re:Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is bei... by jabbywocker on Saturday December 06, 2025 @04:16PM (#46176655)
His pedantic point is that due to the way the original question was written, the answer is “yes” regardless if you object or not.

The question was “isn’t that the state with license plates that say ‘live free or die’?” And even if you get a license plate that doesn’t say it, NH is still the state with those plates

Re:Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is bei... by 9rx on Saturday December 06, 2025 @12:41PM (#46175107)
Free as in beer.
Re:Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is bei... by cykros on Sunday December 07, 2025 @05:40AM (#46180748)
They're not that free about beer. Though, more free about beer than liquor. That's only allowed to be sold in state run liquor stores. It was a real head scratcher when I first encountered it.