Scale is more about efficiency and cost, though. Plenty of people want more policemen patrolling the streets.

abirch 36 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

If we simply mandated that everyone install an app on their phone so that the government can track them scales very well. The people without the app would probably be criminals,

	▲	fluidcruft 12 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I don't follow that... posting a police officer in everyone's house is pretty much a Third and Fourth Amendment violation and not primarily constrained by finances.

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autoexec 17 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Spying on the American public shouldn't be cheap or efficient. We shouldn't abandon our freedom to make the fearful feel better.

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fluidcruft 9 minutes ago | parent [-]

People either have privacy in public or they do not, but I don't know anyone who seriously claims that there's an expectation of privacy on public roads. What freedom are you talking about?

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autoexec 5 minutes ago | parent [-]

> People either have privacy in public or they do not

Thankfully, the law isn't as overly simplistic and black and white as that. It'd be very stupid if it were. We have the ability maintain a general principal like "there's no expectation to privacy in public" and still prohibit certain things that are deemed harmful, like taking upskirt photos of people while they are in public spaces.

	▲	fluidcruft 2 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> nuance for me but not for thee If you're going to argue platitudes from altitude, you don't get to retreat.