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@SupremeDonut@lemmy.ml the courts already decided that it was okay to jail people for literal years for not providing a password: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Rawls
and there are more:
Jfc. Next you'll be jailed for not having a phone
in spain, you're automatically added to a watch list if you publicly use a pixel because its capable of running graphene. lol
I assume all PC users are also on watchlists because they can run Linux or BSD too? Even if they haven't erased Windows yet?
That's fucking wild.
And old.
This has been a thing for decades but too few noticed and many more will stay unaware unless it bites them.
That was a court order though. If there is no court order and no warrant, they shouldn’t be snooping through anything.
the courts have decided that all ports of entry -- including airports -- are constitution free zones; meaning that the constitution does not apply there.
as a result most americans -- 2/3rds of them -- live in places where the constitution does not apply to them.
Yeah, this is bananas. Especially when Antifa is labeled as a terrorist group and they say all of us are Antifa