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[โ€“] Hakuso@scribe.disroot.org 5 points 10 minutes ago

Meanwhile they keep covering up that ranch in New Meico and hiding the list of all the murdering pedophile rapists.

They use CSAM as an excuse to attack the innocent, while protecting the people who are actually involved in it.

[โ€“] artyom@piefed.social 5 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

The US Department of Justice is attempting to prosecute an Atlanta resident in connection with the movement against the police training center known as Cop City because he had GrapheneOS on his phone

Experts said it may be the first time the law has been aimed at the operating system

What clown wrote this? It has nothing to do with GOS specifically, it has to do with destruction of evidence. Not trying to suggest that this person is guilty at all, it's just very strange phrasing. I guess "Protestor charged with destruction of evidence for deleting phone contents" gets less clicks than "protestor charged with running iLlEgAl operating system!".

The case, which had its first hearing on Monday, centers on a little-known US federal statute that makes it a crime to destroy property in an effort to prevent it from being seized.

Is it really "little known" that destroying evidence is illegal?