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by NotANaN 2696 days ago
The law makes a clear distinction between entrapment and opportunity.

Setting up a "honeypot" is not entrapment.

That's not to say that this was anything other than a waste of time and resources, and a textbook example of what happens when a law enforcement agency is unleashed from regulation.

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Thanks for the explanation, I hadn't thought about that difference, makes sense.