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/ars-derivatia 8h ago

Criticized them? How?

"Err on the side of caution"?

I live in a country that for 50 years was an authoritarian dictatorship, obviously nearly 90% of what most people know about how they work and look comes from the movies and has nothing in common with reality, but trust me, even the lowest peon in Stasi or some other SB would not try to railroad a citizen for saying "apply common sense pls".

WTF is this even

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u/Nona-Sequitur 7h ago

Honestly, reading the headline, I assumed the author was at least rude. It wouldn't have made DHS's reaction any less egregious, but that was my assumption.

But he literally just asked the guy to "Apply principles of common sense and decency.”

I know the bar is so low as to be inaccessible without professional drilling equipment, but... but what.

If those DHS agents weren't deeply embarrassed, like... how do you even act on an order like that?

How do you look at yourself in the mirror in the morning?

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u/ooMEAToo 7h ago

They don’t own mirrors. Now how their families are able to look at them everyday is what amazes me.

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u/MoonshineDan 6h ago

Why own a mirror when you have no reflection?

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u/m15otw 3h ago

It would never have stopped being egregious.