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And how are these digital dragnets not a form of harassment? General searches like the ones facebook is obfuscating are the same thing -- deputies showing up an
by tomc1985 7y ago
And how are these digital dragnets not a form of harassment? General searches like the ones facebook is obfuscating are the same thing -- deputies showing up and tossing things around, the only difference is that the person being searched is unaware of it, and there is no mess being made. If you are unjustly caught up in the dragnet then that harassment manifests physically.
- tptacek 7y agoYou just spelled out the difference.
- russler23 7y agoYou’re being obtuse. People didn’t object to general warrants because they were messy. They objected because the intrusion assumes a certain level of guilt in the population at large, and the individual suffers for it in a way that is contrary to the presumption of innocence.