"Nothing to Hide" by BreadPanes
"Nothing to Hide" by BreadPanes
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Everybody has something to hide. That you don’t know what it is you should be hiding doesn’t make it disappear.
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People don't think of innocuous, private, tech-facilitated conversations with loved ones as things to hide. That is, until they're receiving advertisements for caskets after papi kicks it.
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Wait until the cherry pick it. EVERYONE can be criticized if you look deep enough and can gaslight. It's messed up that it has come that.
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What? That I have a bum rash? That I watch hentai? That I vote Green Party? That my Credit Card is ...
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Actually, yes to voting the green party. When authoritarian collectives gain power in a state, there is no question that companies will cooperate with them to stay open.
All that seemingly innocuous information can all of a sudden land you behind bars when it gets handed over to a government that is staunchly against it. LGBT folks in other countries, and women in anti-abortion states come to mind.
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Yup, when ever someone says that, ask to search through their underwear drawer. I guarantee they'll do a quick 180.
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Oh no please not the underwear
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Add "nothing to feel" and we're there.
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"You're right, you do have nothing to hide.
Not anymore." -
Literally me
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Too real.
I was traveling back into the US by car after vacationing with family in Mexico. I was arrested at the border by the US CBP. Almost a dozen officers pointing their guns at my car. They handcuffed me and took me to a detention center. A big room with a metal bench lining the while. My ankle was shackled to the bench. They held me there for 4 hours. Had to use the bathroom with cameras on me. The room filled up with a couple dozen people. There was a 12 year old kid next to me, also shackled to the bench. There were mothers with babies. The USCBP officers cracked jokes like "welcome to the party" in reference to the large number of people in the room. I was terrified because they told me nothing and I had no idea how long they were going to keep me there. At one point they talked about moving people to another detention center, and I was worried I would be one of those people. The rest of my family had entered the US already and had no idea I had been arrested, they thought I was on my way home.
I filed a redress with US DHS. The response I got back was that they couldn't tell me why I was arrested. Reached out to my US representatives, response was basically that US CBP has "wide latitude" to do what they want.