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by mindslight 38 days ago
It does when your employer is the US Government. Decades of overt corporate authoritarianism seems to have made some people forget about the very idea of individual rights.
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No, it doesn't. The government has the right to manage software on devices they own just like any other business.

You can just say you think trump is an authoritarian sack of assholes, you don't need to invent bullshit legal fairy tales. That's not how this works.

> government has the right to manage software on devices they own just like any other business

The government is not a business.

> you don't need to invent bullshit legal fairy tales

Constitutional rights that are meant to explicitly restrain the government are not "bullshit legal fairy tales".

Isn't there a court case with a different legal standard here? Like pagers or something