5 comments

  • hn_acker a day ago ago

    Most of the federal agents arresting people perform fundamentally public-facing activities ostensibly in service of the public. Compared to the average person (or if you'd prefer, to the average non-government-employee), such federal agents should have very little expectation of privacy when they are on the job.

  • k310 a day ago ago

    Wilhoit's Law: [0] Frank Wilhoit's original text from crookedtimber.org on 03.22.18 at 12:09 am

    > Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:

    > There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

    > The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.

    [0] https://systemicunlearning.substack.com/p/wilhoits-law-there...

  • hn_acker a day ago ago

    The original title is:

    > Judges To AG Pam Bondi: It’s OK For The Gov’t To Dox People, But Not OK For People To Dox Gov’t Employees?

  • khelavastr a day ago ago

    So, the government should "disappear" people without publicizing it? That's so much worse.

    • hn_acker a day ago ago

      Is there some gain from posting so overt of a false dichotomy (especially to downplay knowing and malicious hypocrisy by a government actor)? You might as well have said the "Moops" invaded Spain in 711.

      There are reasonable alternatives that aren't letting the government illegally post identities of innocent-until-proven-guilty arrested people on social media for political points ("for it is their adversary who is obliged to use" laws "responsibly, since he believes in" laws) and preventing the government from providing any information about arrested people. Wouldn't you believe it, (with exceptions such as national security, I presume) the government has documentation requirements whenever it detains or arrests people, and must disclose some of that documentation in relation to FOIA requests. When the government doesn't follow those requirements, the government is disappearing people.