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Notice that the person I responded to was speaking about a military checkpoint near the border. Do you know what that is?

• Manuel_D 25d ago
  If anything that makes surveillance even less noteworthy. Is it really surprising that a military installation has surveillance?
  • pseudalopex 25d ago
    They did not say installation.
    • Manuel_D 25d ago
      A checkpoint is a type of military installation. Specifically an installation with the purpose of monitoring and controlling traffic traveling through the checkpoint.
      • pseudalopex 24d ago
        A check point is a point where people or things are checked. It could be military or civilian. It could be permanent or temporary. It could be 1 person and a vehicle parked in a road. This would not be a military installation to most people. Or dictionaries. Or laws.
        • Manuel_D 24d ago
          And the point remains, regardless of semantic quibbling: a checkpoint is probably the least surprising place to encounter surveillance. Arguably, it's the whole point of a checkpoint to surveil, "checking" in your terminology, who's passing through.
  • apercu 24d ago
    I was on a public highway.