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This would come off lot more legit if the current elected US president wasn't a convicted rapist and constantly promoting crypto along with his acolytes like Elon Musk.
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The part that should really enrage you is the way people will selectively understand this based on whether they agree or disagree with the context. If some electronics repair guy repairing vehicle ECUs in bulk who doesn't ask questions but has an inkling that they're gonna get used for emissions laws violations got rolled up on by the feds for refusing to go out of his way to help them out HN would find all sorts of…
This sounds awful lot like Middle Eastern mafia stuff, where it's technically illegal to do some things but you can do a lot of things if you are aligned with the people in power.
I have no idea what this person was up to but this selective treatment(if true) smells very bad. IIRC behind the release of Ross there was some libertarian NGO or something, maybe contact them?
they are trying to set precedent. This can kill TOR or other privacy related services in USA easily in current environment.
That's not the key precedent they are setting. They are working on a much more important case: Making the population understand that disobedience will result in punishment
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Guilt by association is much more a social construct, than a legal one. The bar for legal consequences is expected to be much higher than mere association. It has never been perfect, nor uniformly applied in all circumstances, but it is and should remain a nominal goal of the justice system. For that to no longer be considered the case, even in a casual conversation like this, is a devastating shift of the Overton wi…
It may not literally be guilt by association, but they’re two parts of the same whole in this case, right or wrong.
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Every government agency works this way to the extent that they are able to. Your local building commissioner or whatever just has a lot less money and muscle on tap and much more circuitous access to court judgements in their favor than the FBI does. Differences in their strategic and tactical approach is a reflection of this.
Well, it's punching down. If you are a big corporation or otherwise have the means to fight back, you don't have much to fear.
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That's not the key precedent they are setting. They are working on a much more important case: Making the population understand that disobedience will result in punishment
Isn't this the goal of most laws?
We all commit three felonies a day.
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You clearly never seen police dashcam videos in the US. Besides the corruption and stops for "hunt missions", a lot of times it's simply because you shattered their ego, even with a simple laugh: https://youtube.com/watch?v=NqJdt9_1XSw
Dashcam videos show cops abusing power and being on a power trip in various ways, some mildly annoying and some outrageous. This is also why mobile phone camera tech led to BLM as more and more people became aware of how police act when they think nobody is watching.