The Cooper Davis Act would force tech companies to report suspected drug activity to the government. Experts say it would be a disaster for digital privacy.
it’s never about the drugs, it’s never about the kids, it’s never about the anything
It’s about the money and power.
With a seasoning of hate.
Truer words were never spoken
Yep, “they do it for that” and not to do the same as they did with dotcom
jesus fucking christ that’s dystopian
tell ballsack shaver to fuck off
I’ll just leave this here
Edit: I misinterpreted - I thought this was focused on ISPs and identifying customers that go to sketchy marketplace sites through inspection of DNS logs. If you’re buying drugs on Facebook market place or something like that and are not expecting to get caught… have fun in prison, I guess? It’s Meta. You don’t have privacy on their products. If you do sketchy shit on any of their platforms, you should expect to get caught.
I don’t think a pi-hole will help with that.
Fucking Jeanne Shaheen. I’m from NH, I’ve unfortunately had to vote for her repeatedly. She is going to go to her grave an unrepentant drug warrior. I absolutely loathe the Clinton generation of neolib Democrats, they cannot die off fast enough.
She also voted against student loan debt relief multiple times, unsurprisingly.
This won’t stop drug sales, it’ll just make them sneakier. Fools.
Wow it’s crazy what happens when you have idiots in important positions.
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Because the war on drugs was lost before our government (or any government) even started fighting it.
The DEA is neither necessary or helpful. Legalizing and regulating drugs - and yes, I do mean all drugs - would do far more to improve safety for people who want to, for one reason or another, use drugs (and “drugs” absolutely includes alcohol - it’s a substance that affects your mental state when consumed).
Or, you know, we could actually correct the root cause, which is wealth inequality, general despair over much of what’s happening in the world these days, and endemic poverty and homelessness. But that wouldn’t be profitable, and supply-side Jesus wouldn’t like that.
Simplistic sentiments like ‘combating drugs is good’ is exactly what leads to people to think spying on citizens should even be considered.
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Try harder.
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Now you’re trying too hard.
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People can consent to taking drugs. Children cannot consent to having sex.
Keep trying.
“bUt ThiNk oF thE cHildrEn!!1!1” is not an excuse for surveillance
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drugs are much more complex than “doing them is bad” and banning encrypted messanging apps and implementing surveillance does very little in terms of capturing pedos, while people who use them for legitamate reasons are screwed over
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Necessary evil. Go too far in the human rights narrative and society crumbles.
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And is it important enough to encroach on individual rights like privacy and due process?
You didn’t say it, yes. But established survaillance can be countered by encrypted messanging apps, so the next logical step is to ban them. In fact, the US has been trying to do so for a long time now and the same excuse is always given - “think of the children”. There’s a video by Louis Rossmann and another one by Mental Outlaw, both going into detail about why this is just that, an excuse. Survaillance isn’t normal and should not be normalised.
Perhaps you might consider asking what we ought to do instead of continuing the failed war on drugs?
Pedophiles harm other people. Selling drugs that are inspected and tested not to contain additives and are of a set potency would do wonders preventing accidental overdoses. The taxes made off of the legal sale of drugs can be used for education and harm reduction programs.
I’d point out that this is a classic ‘waddabout the children’ non sequitur, but you already know that.
Nah, he doesn’t understand Latin
So, what specifically makes combating drugs (not specific ones, just drugs in general) good, and how is it comparable to fighting pedophilia? And is it important enough to encroach on individual rights like privacy and due process?
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Did your elementary school not teach that drugs are bad?
I see, so you think elementary school is valid jurisprudence. This says everything about your ability to form logical conclusions.
I see, so you think drugs are good. This says everything about your ability to form logical conclusions.
I think our government is over stepping their bounds. My body my choice. They aren’t doing this to go after kids. They are doing this to put more bodies in jail. If they cared about the well being of people then they would be making programs or other such things to help people. This proposal to hand over our info is only to hurt us.
I see, so you think drugs are good. This says everything about your ability to form logical conclusions.
Thank you for demonstrating my point.
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Now I’m pretty sure you are trolling
Down votes are because studies have shown that programs like DARE and the “war on drugs” didn’t really make drugs go away, and that we need better solutions that address quality of life and mental health issues to keep people from turning to drugs in the first place. Also, saying we need to “combat” drugs is very adversarial, and reinforces the boogie man of “evil drug users”, which helps the passage of overly powerful laws, and often make it easier to exploit minorities.
I also think the simplistic “[let’s just] tackle the issue in a smart way” might rub people the wrong way, like “oh, well why didn’t we think of that?”
EDIT: Your edit of “people don’t agree with me, I guess that means they love drugs” is very assumptive, and close minded.
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You’re almost there, one more step and you’ll realize the true enemy is capitalism.
So there are no black markets outside of capitalist economies?
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Then how would eliminating capitalism resolve anything related to drug use?
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You’re almost there, one more step and you’ll realize the true enemy is capitalism.
and that we need better solutions that address quality of life and mental health issues to keep people from turning to drugs in the first place.
Sounds like you can’t really connect those statements, you just feel like capitalism and drugs are bad so naturally their badness must be connected.
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It is downvoted because you appear to think that more drug laws are the way to address the opiate addiction public health crisis.
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Where did I say ‘drugs are good’?
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Eh no, you are repeatedly and dishonestly conflating ‘it’s a public health problem not a criminal justice problem’ with ‘I love all the drugs’. I think I’m done. Arguing with clowns is pointless.
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false dichotomy followed by strawman. You are clowning yourself.
combatting drugs is bad. it leads to a black market and unreliable product, resulting in overdoses & deaths
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Funny how alcohol addicts are allowed to participate in society normally though while no one in any high paying job is allowed to smoke a joint.
I know lots of alcoholics that still show up to work and contribute to society everyday
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- alcohol deaths per year: 140,000
- tobacco deaths per year: 480,000
- cocaine deaths per year: 15,000 (including crack)
- opioid deaths per year: 68,000
- LSD deaths per year: 0
- cannabis deaths per year: 0
Our drug war is a fucking farce. It is, and always has been, a fascist culture war.
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No thanks. But you go right ahead.
The fact that you put LSD between cocaine and crack made me literally lol.
You’ve clearly lived a very sheltered life and have been fed all of your information on drugs from entertainment media.
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That was obvious when you posted cocaine then crack.
It showed that not only are you not a connoisseur, but your understanding of drugs is most likely mainstream fiction and copaganda regurgitated as news.
Crack is just cocaine that has been processed so you can smoke it instead of snorting or injecting it.
Disclaimer: don’t Fuck around with cocaine, it dumps your dopamine and eventually makes it impossible to feel happiness outside of continued use, and the use diminishes in its dopamine dumps
Edit: I didn’t even read the comment two up, they had the same assessment, lol
Do you consider medical professionals to be ‘drug connoisseurs’?
not a drug connoisseur.
wants all drugs banned because “drugs > bad”
I am not saying crack or other drugs are harmless, but man, have you ever seen an alcohol addict? It completely destroys your body, mind and family (which you like to mention when it comes to other drugs). You can absolutely compare it to crack.
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This has already been tried and didn‘t work. People consumed it anyway (surprise).
So you want to go back to prohibition ? Because alcohol is a drug.
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