• @Candelestine@lemmy.world
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    1301 year ago

    … wtf is going on over there… What kind of douchebags did you guys elect? I mean, I’m American, I know I can’t throw stones here, but y’alls were better than that. You like, wisely stood against our 9/11 invasion and we probably should’ve listened.

    But, wtf?

    btw, if anyone was too lazy to dig, this publication is a nigerian newspaper that actually seems legit. Founded in 2020, so pretty new still. Looking at their front page they mostly just do local reporting. Has had run-ins with local power.

    • @BestBouclettes@jlai.lu
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      1 year ago

      We elected him as the “last rempart to the extreme right”. Turns out he and his cronies are corrupted authoritarian fucks. Their shit social and economic policies are opening a highway to the actual far right in the near future, most likely 2027.

    • @Count042@lemmy.ml
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      141 year ago

      You know that America just… does this, right? No bill, no law… In fact it was the first to do this at all. It’s why in crime shows they remove the battery (from phone where you still can, of course.)

      • @SheeEttin@lemmy.world
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        191 year ago

        No, the “Patriot” Act did authorize stuff like this in the US. There was also the “Freedom” Act, and generally this is all FISA stuff that has very low standards for what’s allowed.

          • pips
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            101 year ago

            Still no. Do they do it anyway? Probably, but that doesn’t make it legal.

            • @Zron@lemmy.world
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              111 year ago

              If I do something, people find out about it, and I don’t get arrested, it’s defacto legal

            • arcturus
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              11 year ago

              are they gonna get in trouble for doing it, even if the government finds out?

              probably not, so it’s practically legal; and that’s kind of the only kind of legality that matters in this case

      • @Serinus@lemmy.ml
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        21 year ago

        It would require a warrant signed by a judge with probable cause.

        Wiretap warrants aren’t easy.

        • @Count042@lemmy.ml
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          11 year ago

          Sorry for the late response, but remind me again how many warrants the FISA court has denied?

          That’s an approval rate of 99.97%

    • @Boiglenoight@lemmy.world
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      41 year ago

      I mean, I’m American, I know I can’t throw stones here

      Right? I’m wary of chastising any first world country at the moment. The past 7 years in particular have been especially WTF