cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1874605

A 17-year-old from Nebraska and her mother are facing criminal charges including performing an illegal abortion and concealing a dead body after police obtained the pair’s private chat history from Facebook, court documents published by Motherboard show.

  • @Gabu@lemmy.world
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    51 year ago

    Reading comprehension is hard, so I’ll help you out.

    This [event mentioned on the news] is the perfect example of why you should be worried. Because your government can [i.e. has the potential to] turn into a fascist dictatorship at any time [which is unrelated to this specific piece of news, being a hypothetical scenario] and you ain’t getting that data back.

    • @Whirlybird@aussie.zone
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      21 year ago

      I can read just fine, I’m just wondering how you correlate this with the possibility of the government turning into a fascist dictatorship. They’re 2 completely unrelated things, that’s why I’m confused to why you put them together. You even literally say it’s unrelated to this piece of news…

      • @Gabu@lemmy.world
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        41 year ago

        Are you serious, or being a pitiful basement troll?

        Action is not illegal → Service provider has unprivateable data on action → Action becomes illegal → You now have confessed to your crime

        Can’t make it much more obvious

        • @Whirlybird@aussie.zone
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          11 year ago

          Are you being serious, or just being a pitiful basement troll yourself?

          You’re saying because they did thing A it means you should be wary because thing Z might happen, even though things A and Z have literally nothing to do with each other nor does A happening give any likelihood of Z happening.

          • @Gabu@lemmy.world
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            21 year ago

            Got it, you’re a pitiful troll. I don’t care that your time is worthless, stop wasting mine.

        • WasPentalive
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          11 year ago

          I thought ex post facto laws were forbidden.

          • @Gabu@lemmy.world
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            11 year ago

            People won’t all stop doing something they did just because it became illegal. I wouldn’t stop eating bread if it became illegal, for instance. Much easier to justify a search and witch hunt if there’s evidence of previous action.