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I think you're being downvoted for having an unpopular opinion, which seems unfair. You're on-topic and cogent. Anyway, you might be interested in Carpenter v

I think you're being downvoted for having an unpopular opinion, which seems unfair. You're on-topic and cogent. Anyway, you might be interested in Carpenter v United States, which is testing the third-party doctrine in front of the Supreme Court and will be decided soon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpenter_v._United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpenter_v._United_States

quadrangle 9y ago
Tangentially, that's why upvote/downvote is inadequate — it squashes unpopular opinions and creates echo-chambers/groupthink. The solution is to have reactions that separate constructive/unconstructive, agree/disagree, and so on (a few other sensible categories) and only bury based on being unconstructive…