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by 6ix8igth
513 days ago
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You don't feel impeded right now, but let enough stupid stuff like this through and you'll slowly drip feed your rights away. I explained in my post above why this is bad - if you make it a crime to do a simple thing, it becomes very easy to falsely accuse a person of a crime, and act in other authoritarian ways. I already have personal experience facing strong arm measures under the pretext of "protecting the kids". Last time I returned to my home country of Australia, the policy forcibly did a digital search of my phone, on the pretext of looking for child porn. I have my banks details and pics of my girlfriend on that thing. In no first world country should I have to surrender it to authorities without a warrant. No one would tolerate this bullshit for any other reason then the moral panic around children. I'm anti-pedophilia, but the legislation the article is talking about is incredibly stupid. We don't accept invasive police-state tactics to combat any other crime, we shouldn't accept them here. |
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