- UK surveillance state powers, anti-porn laws
- Australian laws to detain you, break encryption
- This German incident
I sure am glad to live in a country where freedoms are explicitly guaranteed by a constitutional decree.
I can only assume you're referring to the US's Constitution.
Rights that are apparently guaranteed by the US Constitution are routinely ignored by all levels of US Government.
You may get your day in court, you may even have the court rule in your favour. That does not mean you're made whole, or that the government will back down and stop doing things that infringe upon your rights.
Legal rights? Extremely mutable.
Does the name Edward Snowden ring a bell, and the total surveillance state programs in the US, against US citizens, he revealed?
-the perpetual drive of FBI etc to have e.g. phones decrypted, or have companies install back doors? (e.g. Bernardino)?
- the last administrations systematic programs against ‘unpleasant’ journalists?
- black sites and places like Guantanamo that you could just disappear to?
- civil forfeiture laws that allow the police, without any process, to take your personal property, without any wrongdoing on your part?
- how many people are killed by police in those other countries (at all), and also, how many times does this lead to a prosecution of the officer in question?
Etc.
I have to think that officials are hesitant to engage in many of the petty tyranny we see in other western countries, however, at a rate proportional to the degree to which their constituents are armed. If a police raid has a non trivial chance of turning into a shootout, it's a tool frequently withheld, and probably never used over a tweet.
The wrongful death process in civil courts would also destroy the life of any official who provoked a deadly raid over social media.
No she hasn't.
She was a stupid kid and did stupid kid things, millennial style. She went through the legal system for crossing the line, but by the time she held the job for Florida state government - a decade later - she seems to have married, had children, found a respectable job, and was otherwise a normal human being. And she is probably mortified over the student/professor bad soap, stalker drama she inflicted on the world.
At worst she was a psycho college girlfriend cliché. At best she's a redemption story, and good for her if that's the case.
She never finished her degree, but still found a job as a data scientist, then blew it up because Florida officials wanted to lie.
Have empathy and practice forgiveness, especially on people who did nothing to you. It costs you nothing to withhold what amounts to snide gossip.
No reason to assume we are able to simply relax.
0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EARN_IT_Act_of_2020 (despite the year in the name, it's still an ongoing potential bill)
1. https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2020/06/there%E2%80%99s-n...