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  • No.

    Of course even the president has a right to due process, but no. If the president commits treason, he doesn’t get to be immune to that. A trial is warranted and an arrest if found guilty is correct.

    Yes, corruption could hypothetically rig such a trial. But a president immune from the consequences of his actions means there only needs to be one person corrupted to ruin a whole branch of government, instead of the hundreds it would take Congress to rig a trial.









  • Not encrypted info, if they set it up right.

    But regardless, what they want is more like an actual

    Currently, companies generally want warrants to give information like that.

    Warrants are hard to come by when the government simply wants to read everyone’s messages in case they’re doing criminal activity.

    Even in the best case, the completely honest with no hidden motives situation, they want messages to be more, a source of probable cause for other things. Like getting a drug sniffing dog, who detects drugs, and gives cops reasonable suspicion and therefore allows them to search your car.

    Worst-case, I don’t think anyone trusts the government in this day and age to not just read your messages to discriminate against you.

    Plus the usual security concerns where digital backdoors are weak spots for other governments and everyone else.

    And all that is the general case. this is Desantis’s Florida. It’s probably so he can tell who is gay and who isn’t so he can make them illegal.

    Some companies are happy to share, though, like you said, even without warrants. Those companies generally aren’t encrypting your messages at all. This doesn’t affect them. The law would just affect those that promise security, promise encryption, etc. Those would be, with this law, not quite public, but transparent to the government and compromised to everyone else.



  • Court costs are different than a fine.

    If a random guy sued you for a nonsense reason and you had to show up to court and pay a lawyer hundreds of dollars just to basically say “this lawsuit is frivolous and the ruling is self evident”, it’s reasonable to expect that ransom guy to pay your court costs. The alternative is being sued itself would be like a fine. If some dude with a vendetta sued me 10 times over that I’d be ruined no matter the result.

    So frivolous, ungrounded lawsuits have a cost to them that actually has nothing to do with the courts getting money, it has to do with making it right that someone has wasted your own time and money.

    This guy did that, and has to pay for not only his own lawyer (if he brought one, I expect he didn’t) but also the lawyer for the city/police department.

    Some areas do have an actual fine for wasting the court’s time, so the lawyer thing might not be the only thing going on here, but no matter what, the guy gets to pay more for losing at court when the matter is considered obvious to everyone else and it seems he only wants to argue to avoid a perfectly legal fine.







  • Pretty sure it’d fry the power supply. Thats my first bet, is that it wouldn’t even get through it.

    If it did pass through, it could fry your electronics. A USB killer is a short pulse, and not at all strong compared to main, so I expect that it’d act more like if a neutral was floating, than an actual surge at the voltage a USB killer usually gets to.

    No idea for sure though and I’m not an electrician.