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[–] berdoo 68 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Too real.

I was traveling back into the US by car after vacationing with family in Mexico. I was arrested at the border by the US CBP. Almost a dozen officers pointing their guns at my car. They handcuffed me and took me to a detention center. A big room with a metal bench lining the while. My ankle was shackled to the bench. They held me there for 4 hours. Had to use the bathroom with cameras on me. The room filled up with a couple dozen people. There was a 12 year old kid next to me, also shackled to the bench. There were mothers with babies. The USCBP officers cracked jokes like "welcome to the party" in reference to the large number of people in the room. I was terrified because they told me nothing and I had no idea how long they were going to keep me there. At one point they talked about moving people to another detention center, and I was worried I would be one of those people. The rest of my family had entered the US already and had no idea I had been arrested, they thought I was on my way home.

I filed a redress with US DHS. The response I got back was that they couldn't tell me why I was arrested. Reached out to my US representatives, response was basically that US CBP has "wide latitude" to do what they want.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Everybody has something to hide. That you don’t know what it is you should be hiding doesn’t make it disappear.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People don't think of innocuous, private, tech-facilitated conversations with loved ones as things to hide. That is, until they're receiving advertisements for caskets after papi kicks it.

[–] GladiusB 7 points 1 year ago

Wait until the cherry pick it. EVERYONE can be criticized if you look deep enough and can gaslight. It's messed up that it has come that.

[–] positiveWHAT 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What? That I have a bum rash? That I watch hentai? That I vote Green Party? That my Credit Card is ...

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Actually, yes to voting the green party. When authoritarian collectives gain power in a state, there is no question that companies will cooperate with them to stay open.

All that seemingly innocuous information can all of a sudden land you behind bars when it gets handed over to a government that is staunchly against it. LGBT folks in other countries, and women in anti-abortion states come to mind.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, a reminder that the Weimar Republic, genuinely innocently catalogued the German population with all kinds of information. Too bad that the democratic powers didn't stay in power and the Nazis had access to all the information including who and where Jewish Germans were.

This is btw the reason why you don't have "race" as a category in our census. The government actively doesn't want to know that thanks to the historical baggage.

[–] positiveWHAT 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seems like the bigger problem is people voting in fucking science denying nazis to power.
Shortsighted scientifically illiterate people with voting rights is the bane of civilization.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I would agree, the lack of humanitarian and scientific education consistently bites our societies in the ass, though I've also heard plenty of pragmatic individuals throw up their hands and advocate for authoritarians before.

The big problem is that an authoritarian being voted in is always a looming threat, so it's best to avoid even the chance of such information getting into their hands.

And you do that by not gathering data on your users and making the data you do store encrypted such that not even you can decrypt it. No back doors.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yup, when ever someone says that, ask to search through their underwear drawer. I guarantee they'll do a quick 180.

[–] SaakoPaahtaa 6 points 1 year ago

Oh no please not the underwear

[–] Kyrgizion 17 points 1 year ago

Add "nothing to feel" and we're there.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"You're right, you do have nothing to hide.
Not anymore."

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I have nothing to h̶i̶d̶e̶ show

[–] ObviouslyNotBanana 5 points 1 year ago

Literally me

[–] Touching_Grass -5 points 1 year ago

That guy murdered 5 children