While this is true, I'm pretty sure that you can replace "Americans" with almost any modern country and 80% of this statement will apply. Almost everywhere people are working jobs that they hate, consuming food and drink that they probably shouldn't be having frequently, are saddled by crippling debt, and wasting their time on divisive social media that's trying to convince them that all of the world's problems are the Other Party's fault.

Do you have even the vaguest idea what the monitoring requirements are for water systems in the USA?

If not, why didn't you look it up?

What a trite demonstration of the fact that you live in delulu land.

I'm describing the prevailing situation, not expressing support for it.

By living in denial about it, though, you are in fact enabling it.

Run along now, ignoramus.

lolol @ "within our lifetimes"

We are still profiting. We are still oppressing the people we stole the land from. Yes, it was theft, because we didn't conquer most of it outright — we signed treaties with the natives and then BROKE LITERALLY EVERY ONE OF THEM.

As long as we continue to profit from that ongoing abuse, we share the responsibility for the actions.

I'm not interested in your appeal to religion, so I didn't read the rest of your screed either. Man invented God, so any God-given rights were also invented by man.

Putting a dollar sign in for an S in nerd culture goes back to mocking Compu$erve. You don't know this is a time honored tradition because you are a noob.

The charge is deleting data on a device while under the government's control which I believe could be argued that if the government needed a password to access it, it was not under the governments' control.

This is the law.

The Supreme Court decides what's constitutional. They haven't prevented these searches. They are therefore de facto constitutional at this time. If you don't like it, you're going to want to change the constitution so that the supreme court has meaningful oversight. It doesn't matter what your feelings say. What matters is what the supreme court says.

Rights are a human invention. They're a good one, but they're still just an idea and nothing more. If we don't fight sufficiently to protect that idea, some other idea will win. There's no natural law enforcing your rights.

I didn't specify an existing case because that's not relevant, as it can be a hypothetical case. I don't know why everyone is so vehement about not looking this up and reading about it, but y'all (not just you, but yes, you) could just do that so you're not so confused about this, so you don't get yourself into trouble later.

And it still comes down to security measures in place which are described in the bipartisan USA PATRIOT buttfucking-your-freedoms act.

Guess what? Neither is any other part of the US Government. You name it, our government has done it, including coups, assassinations, coups, genocides, false flags, drug trafficking, human trafficking, willfully selling munitions to international criminals... and most of it within our lifetimes. Yes, Trump is a gigantic piece of orange shit, but this country was doing plenty of evil before he was elected. Or even born, for that matter. And it will still be doing evil when he's dead.

Of course it doesn't make sense to you, because you don't understand free speech. Therefore, no comment about it will make sense. Enjoy supporting authoritarianism.

Courts are historically not amused by deliberate attempts to circumvent the law, and if you're doing a basically equivalent thing then they are going to treat it as such. It only moves the point at which you took the action to destroy the evidence.

You don't read so well, do you?

You shouldn't say that immediately after you prove you're an idiot in addition to being a coward.

The standard is literally that you think a court might ask for it, or it might be relevant to a case.

This is exactly why you don't do this, as we just discussed.

It's already come back. Google already pieces of youtube together that they were offering separately before. I don't want them, I only and specifically want just to pay to remove ads, on principle and for convenience. But I won't pay for shit I don't want and oh yeah, also won't pay to be fucked with like how Google keeps turning autoplay back on after I've turned it off. Make the service work and let me pay for only the parts I want, and I'll pay.