‘The Government Hopes To Set a Precedent’: An Interview With the Man Charged for Allegedly Wiping His GrapheneOS Phone
https://www.404media.co/the-government-hopes-to-set-a-precedent-an-interview-with-the-man-charged-for-allegedly-wiping-his-grapheneos-phone/
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IllNess@infosec.pub · 65 pts · 6d
The government is a bunch of clowns. What gives them the right to tell him what he can or can't do with his own personal device?
greyscale@lemmy.grey.ooo · 32 pts · 6d
The monopoly on violence.
cadekat@pawb.social · 8 pts · 6d
To be clear I don't agree with this statement, but the steelman counterargument would be something like: if the president of the United States were to destroy evidence of a crime, shouldn't that also be a crime?
mierdabird@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 58 pts · 6d
Have to be accused of a crime first for this to apply. The victim here was purely the target of extra customs search due to his support of a politically unfavored cause
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net · -6 pts · 6d
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 6d
Can’t bother to read the article?
thejml@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 6d
He has, and as far as I know he hasn't been held accountable, so I guess this guy's fine, right?
GardenGeek@europe.pub · 46 pts · 6d
If this goes through it sets a precedent for the government declaring someone a criminal for being in a political organisation simply unfavorable to them. He couldn't destroy evidence if he wasn't a criminal could be the take-home-message between the lines they intend to propagate.
CanIFishHere@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 5d
Story has already changed. Originally it was him giving border agents the kill code which they entered.