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NYPD bypassed facial recognition ban to ID pro-Palestinian student protester

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291 points dataflow | 2 comments | 18 Jul 25 13:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.743s | source
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femiagbabiaka ◴[18 Jul 25 14:36 UTC] No.44605114[source]▶
How many rights will we be asked to give up in order to squash anti-war sentiment?
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one-note ◴[18 Jul 25 14:51 UTC] No.44605300[source]▶
Quite a lot. The #1 right, for instance: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_t...

Curious why this is downvoted?

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cayley_graph ◴[18 Jul 25 15:28 UTC] No.44605788[source]▶
I've noticed many right-leaning tech types give quite a lot of lip service to free speech when it's about someone getting banned from a mailing list for being an asshole, and not so much when it's the government quashing protest against genocide. I'll personally always defend the idea of free speech, no matter the side.
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1. noqc ◴[18 Jul 25 16:16 UTC] No.44606471[source]▶
Then you should read the article.
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2. cayley_graph ◴[18 Jul 25 16:37 UTC] No.44606740[source]▶
I did. I believe this sort of stuff to be, at least morally, a violation of the 4A. It's no secret that the anti-Israel protests have gotten an inordinate amount of attention from the law relative to any harm caused, and overstepping bounds like this even to catch actual criminals (as happened here) isn't worth the price paid in liberty.

My comment was targeted at the government/ICE's notorious targeting of anti-Israel protesters broadly. It's absolutely clear that we're giving up rights left and right for this total farce, the same way we did for 9/11. It is imperative to the survival of liberal democracy that this ceases.

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