> The police officer did not seem to realize that the Atlanta man hadn’t posted a photo of the shooter, just another T-shirt with the same design. But the cop did know he’d sent the image to the private chat. Given that the call came from the same city as the eBay seller, it wasn’t clear how that police had access to his private Discord chat.
> The FBI, or the intelligence community, evidently is monitoring Discord private messaging, even from people who have broken no law.
This is a whole lot of clear First Amendment violations. Good thing there's a huge contingent of free speech absolutists who will defend against any governmental interference in protected, political speech. Free speech is the root of democracy: the soap box, the ballot box and the ammo box, use them in that order, according to Mark Twain.
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> The police officer did not seem to realize that the Atlanta man hadn’t posted a photo of the shooter, just another T-shirt with the same design. But the cop did know he’d sent the image to the private chat. Given that the call came from the same city as the eBay seller, it wasn’t clear how that police had access to his private Discord chat.
> The FBI, or the intelligence community, evidently is monitoring Discord private messaging, even from people who have broken no law.
I don't know who Ken Klippenstein is - how much fact checking do we think he did here?
He's a very good investigative journalist and is credible. He often breaks big stories.
From cursory background, he seems to be legit.
I'm not sure that having 11,000 leads and rising is a great result for the FBI. Seems bad, actually.
This is a whole lot of clear First Amendment violations. Good thing there's a huge contingent of free speech absolutists who will defend against any governmental interference in protected, political speech. Free speech is the root of democracy: the soap box, the ballot box and the ammo box, use them in that order, according to Mark Twain.
Unfortunately a lot of the self-declared "free speech absolutists" love free speech so much that they want it all for themselves.