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This is good advice, but if you think you may be arrested, you should not visit at all.
Probably even better advice :) .
As much as this article contains very little information,this sounds very much like something the US will do. Whenever someone has to be the butt of some global joke .....somehow the US has to be the one to step up. Taking someone into custody for 18 hours without giving the family or press any information. How different is this from Iran or North Korea? Two things could've happened here IMO. They asked for the domai…
>> this sounds very much like something the US will do. As an American this sounds very much like something many, many, many countries around the world would do.
Reading the indictment, it seems like his partner ratted him out. Curious though, the indictment seems to list the redacted partner as doing most of the incriminating things (posting a video demonstration, advertising the sale on AlphaBay, etc), it merely accused Marcus as being the author and co-conspirator. I wonder if his partner/friend got caught, and plea bargained to turn state's evidence against Marcus.
> I wonder if his partner/friend got caught, and plea bargained to turn state's evidence against Marcus. I always wonder a bit about how often these things end up like Rubin Carter, with the guilty party turning state's evidence against someone less guilty or entirely innocent. I mean... one presumes there's more evidence generated by being more involved with the crime, as in this case. If you catch whoever is most i…
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This is by all appearances a lawful and routine arrest.
That's what's even more worrying. People getting accustomed to such "routine" arrests.
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That's what's even more worrying. People getting accustomed to such "routine" arrests.
By "routine" you mean "happens approximately once every other year and is covered in essentially every news outlet in the western world", right?
a) by "such routine events" I don't constrain it to "hacker arrested at borders/Def Con" -- but to the general pattern of abuse
b) whether it is "covered" by news outlets or not I don't consider relevant
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By "routine" you mean "happens approximately once every other year and is covered in essentially every news outlet in the western world", right?
No, because: a) by "such routine events" I don't constrain it to "hacker arrested at borders/Def Con" -- but to the general pattern of abuse b) whether it is "covered" by news outlets or not I don't consider relevant
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No, because: a) by "such routine events" I don't constrain it to "hacker arrested at borders/Def Con" -- but to the general pattern of abuse b) whether it is "covered" by news outlets or not I don't consider relevant
"Routine" and "newsworthy" are practically antonyms.
First, being in the news does not necessitate something actually being newsworthy. Between celebrity gossip, the latest fads, and shallow exchanges between career politicians that impact no one and everybody will forget a couple of days later, a very small part of the news is actually newsworthy.
Second, something happening routinely does not mean it's necessarily not worth reporting. Especially for things that happen routinely but shouldn't -- and whose routine re-emergence invokes outrage. The shooting of a black person walking/driving around by cops is very much a routine affair (as they have been 100s of incidents), but it continues to get media coverage and rightly so.
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"Routine" and "newsworthy" are practically antonyms.
That's not relevant in at least two ways: First, being in the news does not necessitate something actually being newsworthy. Between celebrity gossip, the latest fads, and shallow exchanges between career politicians that impact no one and everybody will forget a couple of days later, a very small part of the news is actually newsworthy. Second, something happening routinely does not mean it's necessarily not worth r…
Not unless you make up some meaning of 'routine' that nobody else uses. Police shootings are not routine.