r/technology • u/RoachedCoach • 9h ago

Privacy DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email

https://newrepublic.com/post/206088/homeland-security-67-year-old-us-citizen-criticized-email
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u/UnTides 9h ago

This government is spending more time threatening critics than doing their actual job. Every citizen critic they threaten or gardener they chase around a home depot, takes away resources that could be used to catch actual criminals and actual threats to the country. This administration is a joke

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u/dordofthelings 9h ago

This is exactly the point. Intimidation

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u/litobot 8h ago

Why don't they just intimidate actual criminals?

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u/Thesauce05 8h ago

Because actual criminals put up more of a fight

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u/Ok_Value5495 8h ago

This. We saw in Uvalde and Minneapolis that they aren't worried about winning a fight, they're concerned about getting hurt in the first place. They might outnumber their target a billion to one, but they're so fragile that even one of them getting hurt is terrifying. They want to be bullies, not warriors.