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It's time to disrupt police states, hopefully there are start-ups already on it.

I wouldn't expect much here. I don't see a lucrative early-adopter market. The wealthy and privileged are already mostly exempt from police states; their biggest victims are those with the least money and power. There also isn't a big, obvious revenue stream to divert, as with most startup disruption.

The one bright spot here I see is Twitter (and the parts of Facebook that are most Twitter-like). Turning everbody into a micropublisher and microeditor has helped make police abuse much more visible.

I don't see why there can't be a public website for civilians to submit cases like this. Obviously there will be complex legal/moral issues, but there needs to be a way to put a spotlight on police who misuse power, as well as reward the few non-corrupt ones left. If they serve the public, why should the public not be aware of what they are doing? Twitter and Facebook are fine, but not good enough. If anything they are evidence that a way to catalog and aggregate police data would be in high demand.

there is: http://www.copblock.org/

Privileged or not, I suggest every one living or working in the U.S. read this publication periodically:

https://www.aclu.org/files/kyr/kyr_english.pdf

It may save your life. After learning what was going on in this country, I read it several times before the stasi's forcible, warrantless entry into my home in the middle of the night. I believe it has saved my life on more than one occasion. The reach of the police state in the US has extended to the more fortunate of us, I'm afraid. If you don't think it could happen to you, please reconsider. I'll tell you my stories some time.

this is an absurd statement. I hope you realize that you're coming across like the worst and most base kind of cliché. what do the words you wrote even mean?

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