Pardons only enable presidents to direct their goons to operate outside of the rule of law without repercussions.Having one individual with strong incentives to enable their team stay in power as much as possible retain the power is shocking.
Judges and juries are at least superficially removed from that sort of corrupt incentive system.
> Pardons only enable presidents to direct their goons to operate outside of the rule of law without repercussions.
It is clear that they don't only do that, as that has not been their principal (or even a common) use for most of the history of the pardon power.
It is equally clear, however, that they do allow that; the check on that, like on most discretionary Presidential powers, is the Congressional power of impeachment; obviously, that is not a meaningful constraint when the Congress and the President are aligned on abuses, but the entire point of having separately elected bodies is to make it less likely that things that the public would see as abuses are supported by both political branches simultaneously. (Obviously, the fact that one whole house of Congress and 1/3 of the other are elected at the same time as the President, and that the weighting of the electoral college for the President are a blend of the apportionment to the House and Senate makes those elections less independent than one might want, even before considering the way the electoral structure contributors to partisan duopoly, though.)
This is the tired excuses:
If you've got nothing to hide then you shouldn't want privacy
And
If you already lack privacy in some places you should just give up on having any.
The first is stupid. If there exists capacity to keep things private, why would I NOT want to have privacy? What is in it for me to let arbitrary others see everything I do and am?
The second so strange to hear. It is an argument for turning the slippery slope of privacy erosion that you try to resist into a waterslide that you should enthusiasticly throw yourself down.
Kind of. You can get the nameservers (and glue records if available) for every domain under a TLD if the TLD makes their zone file available. See https://github.com/jschauma/tld-zoneinfo
If you only said more democratized I might lean towards yes with some caveats but you included resilient and DNS is not just peoples workstations and cell phones. It is used by very big and complex systems that make vast numbers of changes every second. Trying to force all of that through blockchain would require a complete re-thinking of how blockchain and the internet work in my opinion. I would be happy to be proven wrong. Someone could try it but that someone would have to be a very big organization for any kind of canary test. The devil would be in the implementation details as to how this monster would scale and handle a myriad of failure scenarios. People would also need to be able to troubleshoot complex misconfigurations. It would take some serious battle hardening before a production revenue generating company would take a chance with it.
the Ethereum Name Service already exists and services this role just fine. Also the only bottleneck for Blockchain is writing to them. Reading them is free and easily available as everyone can have their own copy of the chain and there's already lots of RPC providers like Infura and Alchemy.
Organic Maps is great and I'm hoping the transition to Forgejo goes smoothly for the project.
I've recently started hiking and just generally going outside in my community more. When I relied on Google Maps I would get some random business highlighted when navigating around. Since I switched to Organic Maps I see trails, artwork, parks, scenic views, etc, etc that I never knew existed even in my own neighborhood. I also love the idea that if I find something not right on it I can just open up Open Street Map, make a simple edit, and improve the life of everyone else using the app that comes after me.
I travel by foot or public transport 90% of the time and don't have a SIM card with data (only for emergency calls). Organic maps has been amazing - just download the map ahead of time and never get lost again
I love Organic Maps too. The UI could be a bit nicer, and sometimes it struggles to find where I want to go, but bicycles routes are far superior to those from Google.
Have you ever experienced prison yourself or through someone close? Prisons don't put people on a level playing field at all. It is significantly more comfortable to be rich in prison than poor in prison.
Why do you feel that info is relevant? If my driver's license expired yesterday and then I get pulled over while I'm driving to the DMV today to get it renewed, should I not get a citation?
Just because they had permission before and after their actions took place doesn't make it ok if they didn't have permission at the time of the action. To say otherwise seems to be begging for abuse of a loophole. I guess that's why they had to claim the action wasn't one a warrant was required for...
It’s relevant for the same reason it’s relevant in your driver’s license example. You drive somewhere while your license is valid. Then you replace the car battery, which has died. Then you renew your license, and drive somewhere else. Have you done anything wrong? No, because you need a license to drive the car, not to repair the car.
Same thing here. The government needs a warrant to seize the device or search for information on the device. Does it need a warrant to repair a broken device that it has properly seized, before then getting a warrant to search the device?
It's not relevant for the same reason that it isn't relevant in the driver's license example.
If you don't have a license, then get a friend to drive you. Or get an Uber. But you can't drive yourself. If you do, no matter how reasonable you feel your case was, you'll be in trouble.
In this case, they had an inoperable device, and they had a judge. Absolutely nothing stopped them from filing for yet another warrant and then proceeding only when they actually had it. But no. They wanted to skip their paperwork. They shouldn't get to.
The paperwork exists for a reason. That reason is why we shouldn't retroactively hand out warrants. And that's why we shouldn't do it here. The fruit of the tree and all that. The government knows how to do it right, and absolutely shouldn't. They don't get to beg a friendly judge for forgiveness later. They had no excuse for not simply doing it completely right.
The repair is a repair, not a search. No data was obtained.
I do have a problem with this, but only because of the time. The cops shouldn't get to take ages to examine stuff unless there's a huge amount of stuff to examine.
But they did not simply "repair" it. They added something that leaves the device more vulnerable. Not just to the government, but to anyone with access to the toolkit that the police are trying to use. Which includes foreign actors and random hackers.
No, attempting to create a damaged version should not count as repair. Nor should we be lightly OKing the government's desire to do so.
With kids involved many of the rights you normally have are removed. Police and DCS can use your silence (or a pile of dirty laundry, or you asking for a lawyer to be present, or anything they want) as a reason they need to take your child and put them in foster care, claiming that they see your actions as attempting to hide abuse or withhold access to the kid for investigation.
Even more than phones, this is the reason our children are being raised stuck indoors, contributing to the ever increasing mental health crisis with our kids. Instead they should be able to discovering the pride and joy that comes from self sufficient, independent exploration of the world around them. The government and society should form a support for parents, not treat them like their kids are already wards of the state and the parents only exist to support the government.
They are claiming that it is privacy preserving, since it uses AI and not humans, and only for catching csam
Assuming those claims are true(I know, that is a big ask, but they claim it) what function do exceptions provide unless they are purposely giving those exceptions for the production and distribution of csam by those groups?
More likely their claims of the privacy and/or purpose are false.
Judges and juries are at least superficially removed from that sort of corrupt incentive system.