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NY Writer Says She Was Visited by a Terrorism Task Force for Googling Pressure Cookers

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Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)8/01/2013 4:59:19 pm PDT

re: #275 Mattand

I know. It’s just that combo of “company” and “police” that makes me antsy.

Well, I’m not sure what it is you want. Maybe someone at the company was an asshole who wanted to cause this dude whatever stress he could, but I could do that by phoning up an anonymous tip, too, I don’t have to be a company. Cops check shit out, it’s alarming but it’s a necessary thing. We’re never going to get to a place where cops never check out people who have done absolutely nothing wrong.

We can’t prevent corporations from giving info they have to the cops, and we can’t prevent cops from being interested in it. And we shouldn’t, either.