The Cooper Davis Act would force tech companies to report suspected drug activity to the government. Experts say it would be a disaster for digital privacy.
it’s never about the drugs, it’s never about the kids, it’s never about the anything
It’s about the money and power.
With a seasoning of hate.
Yep, “they do it for that” and not to do the same as they did with dotcom
jesus fucking christ that’s dystopian
tell ballsack shaver to fuck off
Wow it’s crazy what happens when you have idiots in important positions.
This won’t stop drug sales, it’ll just make them sneakier. Fools.
Fucking Jeanne Shaheen. I’m from NH, I’ve unfortunately had to vote for her repeatedly. She is going to go to her grave an unrepentant drug warrior. I absolutely loathe the Clinton generation of neolib Democrats, they cannot die off fast enough.
She also voted against student loan debt relief multiple times, unsurprisingly.
Combating drugs is good, spying is not good, you need a very transparent law that tackles the issue in a smart way.
EDIT: Why the downvotes? Is this a pro-drugs community?
Simplistic sentiments like ‘combating drugs is good’ is exactly what leads to people to think spying on citizens should even be considered.
What about pedophilia? Should we also let it go when we give up all investigations on drugs?
Try harder.
I don’t understand, try harder in the investigations? I thought you were telling us to stop investigating them!
Let me guess, you’re an anarchist.
Now you’re trying too hard.
I see, we’ll investigate the drug traffickers but ONLY A LITTLE. Arrest like 20% of them. Same for the pedophiles and human traffickers.
Keep trying.
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So, what specifically makes combating drugs (not specific ones, just drugs in general) good, and how is it comparable to fighting pedophilia? And is it important enough to encroach on individual rights like privacy and due process?
So, what specifically makes combating drugs good?
Did your elementary school not teach that drugs are bad? Just asking, I can point you to another number of sources if you want proof.
and how is it comparable to fighting pedophilia?
Both are crimes largely committed through the internet.
And is it important enough to encroach on individual rights like privacy and due process?
Necessary evil. Go too far in the human rights narrative and society crumbles.
Did your elementary school not teach that drugs are bad?
I see, so you think elementary school is valid jurisprudence. This says everything about your ability to form logical conclusions.
I see, so you think drugs are good. This says everything about your ability to form logical conclusions.
I see, so you think drugs are good. This says everything about your ability to form logical conclusions.
Thank you for demonstrating my point.
I think our government is over stepping their bounds. My body my choice. They aren’t doing this to go after kids. They are doing this to put more bodies in jail. If they cared about the well being of people then they would be making programs or other such things to help people. This proposal to hand over our info is only to hurt us.
LOL, the argument drugs is bad cause death is a elementary school level of reasoning, the world is more complex than that.
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“bUt ThiNk oF thE cHildrEn!!1!1” is not an excuse for surveillance
“Fuck the children” is exactly the vibe I’m getting from this thread. They’ll have a good life being raised by drug addicts and then sold to some human trafficker.
drugs are much more complex than “doing them is bad” and banning encrypted messanging apps and implementing surveillance does very little in terms of capturing pedos, while people who use them for legitamate reasons are screwed over
Scroll up and find the part where I said to ban encrypted messaging. You’ll find the following sentence instead “spying is bad”.
You also said
Necessary evil. Go too far in the human rights narrative and society crumbles.
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And is it important enough to encroach on individual rights like privacy and due process?
You didn’t say it, yes. But established survaillance can be countered by encrypted messanging apps, so the next logical step is to ban them. In fact, the US has been trying to do so for a long time now and the same excuse is always given - “think of the children”. There’s a video by Louis Rossmann and another one by Mental Outlaw, both going into detail about why this is just that, an excuse. Survaillance isn’t normal and should not be normalised.
Perhaps you might consider asking what we ought to do instead of continuing the failed war on drugs?
I’d point out that this is a classic ‘waddabout the children’ non sequitur, but you already know that.
Pedophiles harm other people. Selling drugs that are inspected and tested not to contain additives and are of a set potency would do wonders preventing accidental overdoses. The taxes made off of the legal sale of drugs can be used for education and harm reduction programs.
combatting drugs is bad. it leads to a black market and unreliable product, resulting in overdoses & deaths
A drug addict does not make any contributions to society, he’s the living dead.
So you want to go back to prohibition ? Because alcohol is a drug.
Want to see a video of how someone looks like after using psychedelic drugs for some time? Will you still make this comparison afterwards?
If you people establish that banning alcohol is a absolute requirement for banning cruel drugs that destroy entire families, so be it.
EDT: Downvoted in 20 seconds.
Look, you’d have to be both purposefully oblivious and living under a rock to not have a notion of what drunk people look like and the research done on the health risks of it, and all the addiction and alcoholism… Like, give me a fucking break.
Edit: I’m saying this to say that humans have accepted the risk associates with alcohol (not saying not to regulate it) and it should equally allow the same for drugs. The only difference is that some drugs are plain out less harmful than alcohol.
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Why, is this an anti-drug community?
It is downvoted because you appear to think that more drug laws are the way to address the opiate addiction public health crisis.
crisis
Why is it a crisis? I thought you believed drugs were good!! Isn’t it almost an utopic situation with all the opiate addicts around? Is this not what you were looking for?
Where did I say ‘drugs are good’?
Oh, are you not a pro-drugs individual? I’m being chased by those who defend drug abuse and a lawless society, sorry if I mistook you for one of the evil-doers.
Eh no, you are repeatedly and dishonestly conflating ‘it’s a public health problem not a criminal justice problem’ with ‘I love all the drugs’. I think I’m done. Arguing with clowns is pointless.
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false dichotomy followed by strawman. You are clowning yourself.
