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Well the whole point of hiding your tracks is evading law enforcement, why would you care if it’s illegal? Or is it because of the „only do one crime at a time“
by echoangle 2y ago
Well the whole point of hiding your tracks is evading law enforcement, why would you care if it’s illegal? Or is it because of the „only do one crime at a time“ thing?
- giantg2 2y agoWhy do you assume this is about doing illegal things? This is about protests, many of which never turn into riots or illegal acts.
- echoangle 2y agoI was thinking along the lines of „the state wants to oppress the protestors and makes it illegal“, but if you just want to avoid surveillance at a legal protest, yeah, you’re right.
- JumpCrisscross 2y agoGoing into a protest with illegal communication devices is almost a direct sabotage of the protest's intent. It gives law enforcement a legitimate reason to act, even if almost certainly ex post facto. And it paints the protest as wilfully illegal--you went in intending to break the law.
- paulryanrogers 2y agoIf you're protesting an oppressive regime then it's likely most privacy respecting methods are illegal.
- XorNot 2y agoIf you're attending a protest with a phone, the cell tower ping will deanonymize you anyway.
- keybored 2y agoThe state has every reason (for itself) to demand perfect law-abiding behavior. The abstract Protest’s intent does not.
- mathieuh 2y ago“If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear” right? That’s the same logic politicians are using to make spying on populations legal.
- dostick 2y ago"Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say." - Ed Snowden
- Gud 2y agoNo one was arguing this. It’s possible to have encrypted communications without fucking up public parts of the spectrum.
- BrandonMarc 2y agoHiding from surveillance is not the same as planning to do something illegal. ... but it benefits the state if people think it's the same ...
- hulitu 2y ago> Well the whole point of hiding your tracks is evading law enforcement, why would you care if it’s illegal? Because it will make you an easy target.