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.

  • Whirlybird
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    arrow-down
    4
    ·
    1 year ago

    How is this an example of the government turning into a “fascist dictatorship”?

    • Gabu@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      1 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
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        1 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
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          4
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          1 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

            • Gabu@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              1
              ·
              1 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.

          • Whirlybird
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            arrow-down
            4
            ·
            1 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
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              2
              arrow-down
              1
              ·
              1 year ago

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