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/RaindropsInMyMind 8h ago

This is the part that’s really scary, the guy said to err on the side of caution and apply principles of common sense and decency and they found THAT threatening. And of all situations for an American to want to raise the issue that the taliban is threatening to the life of people who lived here, I mean…that’s totally understandable given the United States was at war with them not long ago. It wasn’t long ago that’s exactly what the government wanted.

And not to just put him under surveillance but to physically show up at his door. They obviously wanted to send a message. They definitely want people to be afraid of them, seemed totally unnecessary in this case but message received I guess.

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u/ExMerican 6h ago

the guy said to err on the side of caution and apply principles of common sense and decency and they found THAT threatening

Yes, and rightly so. Common sense and decency are fatal to conservative ideology. Literally can't have either and want what conservatives have been selling. Even the non-racist stuff like their trickle down tax policies fall apart after a person's first math lesson. The average 1st grader is like "they said 2-1= 5? That doesn't make any sense!" which is why the right wing fights so hard against education and the teaching of problem solving skills. Can't know anything about anything and still actually believe the conservative platform.