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> Being nice and open does not imply having to take abuse with a smile, does it? That cuts both ways: the various members of the community who are victims of p
by yellowapple 4y ago
> Being nice and open does not imply having to take abuse with a smile, does it?
That cuts both ways: the various members of the community who are victims of police surveillance (let alone other abuses) are under no obligation to take with a smile an overt manifestation of that abuse.
> As I already wrote, there is nothing wrong or underhand about surveillance in organised crime investigations.
What makes you so confident that the entirety of the new hire's surveillance work was against organized criminals?
- mytailorisrich 4y agoI didn't know that Raspberry Pi was popular among organised crime... because that's the 'police surveillance' we're talking about. I am very disappointed by HN members on this one... really unsavoury.
- yellowapple 4y ago> I didn't know that Raspberry Pi was popular among organised crime You didn't answer my question: why are you so confident that such surveillance was/is strictly confined to organized criminals? > I am very disappointed by HN members on this one... really unsavoury. The feeling is mutual. People playing defense for literal government surveillance and the officers perpetrating it does the name "Hacker News" a rather tragic disservice.