The difference is that investigating someone who fits a particular behavioral profile is something that a reasonably competent organization might do, while inve

The difference is that investigating someone who fits a particular behavioral profile is something that a reasonably competent organization might do, while investigating someone over nothing but a Reddit comment that he didn't even write would be stupid. When even the subject of the story describes it as the former, reporting it as the latter is sloppy at best, fallacious pandering at worst. See, what bothers me about this is that instead of highlighting the actually interesting legal question of whether installing such GPS devices is a violation of civil liberties or should require a warrant--the things Afifi is actually suing over--TechDirt (among scores of others in the giant web echo chamber) just throws this into the "look at this fucking government" bin where it does little more than reaffirm, 2 minutes hate-style, whatever the reader already believed.