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"Suspicionless" is poor translation of "Anlasslose" which would more appropriately translated as "unfounded" in order to convey the uncommitted nature of "anlas
by hopelite 1y ago
"Suspicionless" is poor translation of "Anlasslose" which would more appropriately translated as "unfounded" in order to convey the uncommitted nature of "anlasslose". "Anlass" in this context is literally "reasons".
Because the language is far clearer in the US, you would and do hear "warrantless" being used in both the legal and general sense when it comes to these topics, but translating "Anlasslos" as "warrantless" would imply far too much confidence than is given.
"Unfounded" also reflects the weak perspective on hard boundaries of law and limitations on the state that simply do not exist in Germany and effectively all of Europe in the way that they do in the USA as de facto immovable law of the Constitution. "Anlasslos" implies a mental framework and conception that defers your rights (free speech in this case) to the subjective judgement of various people like politicians, judges, technocrats, bureaucrats, regulators, police officers, etc., i.e., someone does not like your speech so they will monitor your communication with our grandma for the abusive and narcissistic, manipulative concept of "hate speech", aka. "speech I hate".