• LWD@lemm.eeOP
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    1 year ago

    If she was serious, she might recommend randomized checkpoints where police officers stop you, force you to unlock your phone, and then check for unapproved social media accounts in applications and browsers.

    Otherwise, this sort of censorship would only apply to people without the technical knowledge or cash to use a VPN.

    But hey, we love our small government Republicans, don’t we folks

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      1 year ago

      It’s a tool to oppress dissent.

      Realistically, you can’t enforce the law, but if you find an anonymous account for anything on someone’s phone or laptop, you can easily arrest or fine them.

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        1 year ago

        It’s because if someone says a mean thing about them or their views online, they want to be able to identify them and direct stochastic terrorism towards them.

        They want to go back to an America where even though a shit ton of white people hated the KKK, no one would say it publicly because then you were their biggest target as a “race traitor”.

        Because that’s the only way to get people to stop pointing out how mind-blowingly stupid their ideas are.