• lokitkhemak@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    This will definitely not be misused by anyone in the government. How on the earth did such blatantly dystopian law get passed?

  • alliswell33 @lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    The US has exported it’s police brutality and police state to France. They even have the similar right wing news apperatice to convince the populace it’s all good. Making Uncle Sam proud 🇺🇸🇫🇷🍟🥖

    • RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Not every bad thing people do is the fault of the US.

      The French can be proper assholes. Look up the history of Haiti and which European colonies purchased the most African slaves.

      Then ask. Where did all they go?

  • Candelestine@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    … wtf is going on over there… What kind of douchebags did you guys elect? I mean, I’m American, I know I can’t throw stones here, but y’alls were better than that. You like, wisely stood against our 9/11 invasion and we probably should’ve listened.

    But, wtf?

    btw, if anyone was too lazy to dig, this publication is a nigerian newspaper that actually seems legit. Founded in 2020, so pretty new still. Looking at their front page they mostly just do local reporting. Has had run-ins with local power.

    • Boiglenoight@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I mean, I’m American, I know I can’t throw stones here

      Right? I’m wary of chastising any first world country at the moment. The past 7 years in particular have been especially WTF

    • BestBouclettes@jlai.lu
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      1 year ago

      We elected him as the “last rempart to the extreme right”. Turns out he and his cronies are corrupted authoritarian fucks. Their shit social and economic policies are opening a highway to the actual far right in the near future, most likely 2027.

    • Count042@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      You know that America just… does this, right? No bill, no law… In fact it was the first to do this at all. It’s why in crime shows they remove the battery (from phone where you still can, of course.)

      • SheeEttin@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        No, the “Patriot” Act did authorize stuff like this in the US. There was also the “Freedom” Act, and generally this is all FISA stuff that has very low standards for what’s allowed.

          • pips@lemmy.film
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            1 year ago

            Still no. Do they do it anyway? Probably, but that doesn’t make it legal.

            • arcturus@lemmy.world
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              1 year ago

              are they gonna get in trouble for doing it, even if the government finds out?

              probably not, so it’s practically legal; and that’s kind of the only kind of legality that matters in this case

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        1 year ago

        It would require a warrant signed by a judge with probable cause.

        Wiretap warrants aren’t easy.

        • Count042@lemmy.ml
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          1 year ago

          Sorry for the late response, but remind me again how many warrants the FISA court has denied?

          That’s an approval rate of 99.97%

  • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    While people in the west have been smugly pointing fingers at China, their own governments did everything they’ve been denouncing in China and worse. Congratulations.