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Where have you been? In the US, they can do whatever they want to you.
by bitJericho 9y ago
Where have you been? In the US, they can do whatever they want to you.
- idlewords 9y agoThis is by all appearances a lawful and routine arrest.
- bitJericho 9y agoThat's besides the point. In the US the police can do anything they like to you.
- idlewords 9y agoThen your comment is off-topic.
- bitJericho 9y agoMaybe you should learn how threads work. Read the original parent thread.
- tatterdemalion 9y agoThat's the problem.
- coldtea 9y agoThat's what's even more worrying. People getting accustomed to such "routine" arrests.
- tptacek 9y agoBy "routine" you mean "happens approximately once every other year and is covered in essentially every news outlet in the western world", right?
- coldtea 9y agoNo, because: a) by "such routine events" I don't constrain it to "hacker arrested at borders/Def Con" -- but to the general pattern of abuse b) whether it is "covered" by news outlets or not I don't consider relevant
- tptacek 9y ago"Routine" and "newsworthy" are practically antonyms.
- coldtea 9y agoThat's not relevant in at least two ways: First, being in the news does not necessitate something actually being newsworthy. Between celebrity gossip, the latest fads, and shallow exchanges between career politicians that impact no one and everybody will forget a couple of days later, a very small part of the news is actually newsworthy. Second, something happening routinely does not mean it's necessarily not worth reporting. Especially for things that happen routinely but shouldn't -- and whose routine re-emergence invokes outrage. The shooting of a black person walking/driving around by cops is very much a routine affair (as they have been 100s of incidents), but it continues to get media coverage and rightly so.
- pvg 9y agoThe shooting of a black person walking/driving around by cops is very much a routine affair Not unless you make up some meaning of 'routine' that nobody else uses. Police shootings are not routine.