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Originally Posted by tony404
Well said  |
I'm sure I could have said it even better, but hell I could make the immaculate argument and there's still going to be shitloads of people, living in fear, who are ready and willing to hand away any resemblance of freedom they have to do away with the latest evil. Then it's all fine and dandy until they find themselves the victim of some strange open-ended law which they blindly supported. I'm sure in using the method they will catch and convict a handful of kiddie fiddlers, but the method is left way to open. I don't agree with the application...
Up in Canada we had a police operation make I think 81 arrests just recently. I'm willing to bet that the group behind the project was made up of at most a couple dozen actual full-time investigators. They didn't have to use lame driveby tactics like this to make arrests.They used real police work, and I think they did a hell of a job in the process. You ever see the interviews on the news with the guys working in these units? It's like 3 dudes in an office, cooperating with 2 dudes in another detachment, who have a connection to 3 guys over in some other city at another office. They almost always mention that they feel their units are understaffed. What we need is MORE dedicated officers doing the job, and with some REAL international cooperation, doing real investigations...
I don't want to see the internet turned into another controlled and regulated medium, where the lawmakers can slip by any strange law they'd like and tell us it's in our best interests. Is it going to get to the point where they start arresting people calling them terrorists if they make a post on some political forum saying the government is corrupt and needs to be dismantled? Are the feds going to throw up dummy terrorist links next and arrest anyone who visits them for being a terrorist supporter? Are we going to one day be living like the chinese where everything we view online is controlled 'for our own protection'? It's oddball little things like this that if allowed will gain acceptance and allow for worse to come...