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There should be regulations, yes. We should be dramatically limiting the power of the government as it was in the past in the US. If it is a problem that the g
by imgabe 7y ago
There should be regulations, yes. We should be dramatically limiting the power of the government as it was in the past in the US.
If it is a problem that the government identifies you as a protestor, at that point it doesn't matter that there was a regulation telling them not to. The government needs to be controlled to the point that it doesn't matter whether they can identify a protestor or not, because peacefully protesting should not be a crime that warrants government intervention.
It should be hard for the government to imprison you or otherwise impinge your freedom, for only serious offenses, with a high burden of proof, in a public trial.
- arcticbull 7y ago> We should be dramatically limiting the power of the government as it was in the past in the US. > The government needs to be controlled to the point that it doesn't matter whether they can identify a protestor or not, because peacefully protesting should not be a crime that warrants government intervention. Right, but that was never the case, and it probably won't be in the future.
- imgabe 7y agoWell, it's going to have to be if we're going to live in a world where facial recognition technology exists. Because this idea where the government wants to jail peaceful protestors, but surely they'll refrain from using certain technologies to find them if we just ask nicely does not make sense to me.
- arcticbull 7y agoI mean I agree but if they wanted to jail peaceful protestors surely they could do that by showing up at the protest and rounding them up? The whole point is to be conspicuous.