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points by stickfigure 5 days ago | 0 comments

Great! I'm sure you won't mind if our Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice goes through your financial transactions, browser history, messaging, friends list, and geolocation records looking for signs of improper behavior. We're here to help you avoid impure thoughts!

[–] saghm 4 days ago

I don't believe you actually have trouble understanding that the opinion that some private transactions are worth making illegal is equivalent to thinking that literally no privacy rights exist. I think you're smart enough to know that people can think that it should be possible to prosecute a company nationally advertising that they provide a service without thinking that it should be possible for the government to arbitrarily decide to force a citizen to turn over all of their private communications without a court order.

[–] ozgrakkurt 4 days ago

Banning drugs, smoking and gambling is not the same as a dystopian government.

I know several people that had their lives severely impacted by these things and they were all regular people.

[–] soperj 4 days ago

they already do

[–] wat10000 4 days ago

I know it's difficult for the libertarian mind to comprehend, but one can be in favor of some government intervention without being in favor of all.

[–] pixl97 4 days ago

The libertarians and housecats saying rings true for a reason.

[–] cowlevel 4 days ago

The saying in question:

Libertarians are like house cats. They’re convinced of their fierce independence while dependent on a system they don’t appreciate or understand.