• alykanas@slrpnk.net
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    1 day ago

    Miller was held for three and a half hours under Section 7, which deprives detained people of their right to silence and privacy despite carrying no assumed suspicion, and questioned about his trip to Lebanon. He was subsequently released without charge.

    This will be the erosion of civil liberties Musk and Vance are so upset about , right ? Free association etc etc ?

    Even the UN don’t like it.

    https://news.un.org/en/story/2007/06/222542

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      22 hours ago

      You mean the civil liberty to be associated with actual terrorists?

      This isn’t some case of him saying something the government doesn’t like, this is the case of him having a really weird relationship with people who think blowing people up is a reasonable response to a minor slight.