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by Terr_ 2818 days ago
> Nice try, officer, people advocating against privacy and Internet freedom always use child protection

Oh get off your goddamn high-horse already:

1. I explicitly told you it was reductio ad absurdum.

2. I lampshaded it with a silly "crate with air-holes."

3. I outright told you to pick some other scenario if you wished in the final paragraph.

> if they actually find letters there it's not Ok to read them

Hey, didn't you read the final sentence of my post? This isn't actually about giant crates with air-holes, you know. It's about the problems of asserting an utterly inviolable right which is also fundamentally impossible to validate.

Let me put it this way: Your search warrant is to check the premises for threatened blackmail photos, the stolen military bomb plans, and illicit cash payoffs. The letter-envelope is noticeably thicker than normal and crinkles.

What happens?