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pavel_lishinyesterday at 7:23 PM6 repliesview on HN

> “If you’re not doing anything illegal, why worry about it?” said long-time Jacumba resident Allen Stanks, 70.

I'm going to grind my teeth into a fine powder.


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hydrogen7800yesterday at 8:41 PM

This is perhaps a more common opinion than you think. Making it easy to catch bad guys is enough reason. I don't know how to effectively convince someone that the ease of law enforcement comes at the expense of liberty, which so many of the aforementioned opinion-holders also claim to be concerned about. I feel like it should be self-evident, that law enforcement and liberty are mutually exclusive, and that we have things like warrants to allow that infringement on liberty in very narrow circumstances. Dragnet surveillance is warrant-less evidence gathering.

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pinkmuffinereyesterday at 7:29 PM

> “Everyone is talking about privacy, OK. Stop putting everything on Facebook. ‘Here’s a picture of my food.’ Who cares?” said Stanks.

Lol, this is just an old guy that wants to say something, _anything_ to the world

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general1465yesterday at 11:53 PM

Just ask him to show you his bank accounts / unrestricted access to phone / camera in bedroom. It is always funny to see these people bend into pretzels trying to justify why you should not see how much money is on their bank accounts while you are just repeating their own mantra that if they did not do anything illegal, why they are worried about it?

mingus88yesterday at 10:26 PM

Yeah ask this guy how he’d feel if a different party were in power and doing this.

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staplersyesterday at 9:04 PM

The answer is always "because law enforcement is usually doing something illegal"

hollow-moeyesterday at 7:52 PM

"You're in public space, you can't assume any kind of privacy here. Just don't go out."