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> Is that not...good? If Google is reading my emails to sell me stuff (and I've given them permission to do so by using their service), and sees (reasonable) ev

> Is that not...good? If Google is reading my emails to sell me stuff (and I've given them permission to do so by using their service), and sees (reasonable) evidence I'm engaged in illegal activities, don't they have a responsibility to report that? Is that not the same thing as a GeekSquad technician stumbling across child porn on a laptop they're fixing? No, it's not good. Any internet service provider that reaches mass adoption faces a dilemma: - Face legal problems - Become another arm for law enforcement (and maybe even bypass the 4th Amendment) The prison industrial complex grows fatter.

adventured 9y ago
The government & corporate prison complex has been declining for about a decade now. It has been rolled back about 20 years. It's not growing fatter: https://i.imgur.com/ppyHKC4.jpg https://i.imgur.com/ppyHKC4.jpg By the time pot legalization gets to over half the states (in the next 10-15 years), we should have the incarceration machine rolled back to the mid 1980s, just six or seven years after the mass incarceration boom took off.