• Re: UK Police Turn Off Cameras Because They Catch Too Many Black People

    From BTR1701@3:633/10 to All on Tue Mar 31 06:36:08 2026
    On Mar 27, 2026 at 11:24:04 AM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 3/27/2026 2:09 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Mar 27, 2026 at 1:25:03 AM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com>
    wrote:

    The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
    Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:32:08 -0000 (UTC), Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com>: >>>
    The whole BLM demand for bodycams movement has been one of the biggest >>>>>> self-owns in the history of race hustling.

    I believe the above line was written by BTR but Adam may know the term >>>> - I've never heard the term "self-owns" before - is that the same as
    the British football (e.g. what we North Americans call soccer) folks >>>> call an "own goal"?

    It's "You can't stop thinking about me. I own your headspace." You're
    obsessing over having lost a meaningless argument on line in a
    humiliating way rather than just immediately acting like an adult and
    owning up to having made a mistake.

    In this case, it was failure to consider that video evidence gathered is >>> neutral and that a bodycam is going to capture the person being
    encountered by police misbehaving and will not provide evidence of P.I. >>> to justify a lawsuit against police.

    Earlier this year, Democrats in Congress were demanding that ICE agents be >> required to wear bodycams, something to which the Republicans readily
    agreed.
    Now, as part of their DHS shutdown demands, they're backtracking and saying,
    "On second thought, we don't really want the cameras on all the time. We
    demand rules about when they can and can't be recording."

    Nothing says "peaceful protest" like demanding all cameras be turned off. >> Their problem is that the cameras don't know who the approved villains are >> and
    tend to capture everything without political bias.

    Googling tells me only that Dems (Mar 24) *want* the bodycams (that
    Biden ordered for *all* govt. cops). Got a cite of the "backtracking"?


    https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/07/democrats-fear-body-cameras-could-be-ices-new-mass-surveillance-tool-00769363



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  • From moviePig@3:633/10 to All on Tue Mar 31 10:43:29 2026
    On 3/31/2026 2:36 AM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Mar 27, 2026 at 11:24:04 AM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 3/27/2026 2:09 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Mar 27, 2026 at 1:25:03 AM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> >>> wrote:

    The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
    Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:32:08 -0000 (UTC), Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com>: >>>>
    The whole BLM demand for bodycams movement has been one of the biggest
    self-owns in the history of race hustling.

    I believe the above line was written by BTR but Adam may know the term >>>>> - I've never heard the term "self-owns" before - is that the same as >>>>> the British football (e.g. what we North Americans call soccer) folks >>>>> call an "own goal"?

    It's "You can't stop thinking about me. I own your headspace." You're >>>> obsessing over having lost a meaningless argument on line in a
    humiliating way rather than just immediately acting like an adult and >>>> owning up to having made a mistake.

    In this case, it was failure to consider that video evidence gathered is >>>> neutral and that a bodycam is going to capture the person being
    encountered by police misbehaving and will not provide evidence of P.I. >>>> to justify a lawsuit against police.

    Earlier this year, Democrats in Congress were demanding that ICE agents be
    required to wear bodycams, something to which the Republicans readily
    agreed.
    Now, as part of their DHS shutdown demands, they're backtracking and saying,
    "On second thought, we don't really want the cameras on all the time. We >>> demand rules about when they can and can't be recording."

    Nothing says "peaceful protest" like demanding all cameras be turned off. >>> Their problem is that the cameras don't know who the approved villains are
    and
    tend to capture everything without political bias.

    Googling tells me only that Dems (Mar 24) *want* the bodycams (that
    Biden ordered for *all* govt. cops). Got a cite of the "backtracking"?

    https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/07/democrats-fear-body-cameras-could-be-ices-new-mass-surveillance-tool-00769363

    Okay, that does at least attest to considerable confusion (...which I
    share in my own conflicted views about bodycams and surveillance).





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  • From Ubiquitous@3:633/10 to All on Tue Mar 31 21:29:29 2026
    In article <10qgmii$3dnd6$1@dont-email.me>, nobody@nowhere.com wrote:
    On 3/31/2026 2:36 AM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Mar 27, 2026 at 11:24:04 AM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote: >>> On 3/27/2026 2:09 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    "Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
    The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
    Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com>:

    The whole BLM demand for bodycams movement has been one of the >>>>>>>> biggest self-owns in the history of race
    hustling.

    I believe the above line was written by BTR but Adam may know the >>>>>> term - I've never heard the term "self-
    owns" before - is that the
    same as the British football (e.g. what we North Americans call >>>>>> soccer) folks call an "own goal"?

    It's "You can't stop thinking about me. I own your headspace." You're >>>>> obsessing over having lost a meaningless argument on line in a
    humiliating way rather than just immediately acting like an adult and >>>>> owning up to having made a mistake.

    In this case, it was failure to consider that video evidence gathered >>>>> is neutral and that a bodycam is going
    to capture the person being
    encountered by police misbehaving and will not provide evidence of >>>>> P.I. to justify a lawsuit against police.

    Earlier this year, Democrats in Congress were demanding that ICE
    agents be required to wear bodycams, something to which the Republicans >>>> readily agreed. Now, as part of their DHS shutdown demands, they're
    backtracking and saying,
    "On second thought, we don't really want the cameras on all the time. >>>> We demand rules about when they can and can't be recording."

    Nothing says "peaceful protest" like demanding all cameras be turned >>>> off. Their problem is that the cameras don't know who the approved
    villains are and tend to capture everything without political bias.

    Googling tells me only that Dems (Mar 24) *want* the bodycams (that
    Biden ordered for *all* govt. cops). Got a cite of the "backtracking"?

    https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/07/democrats-fear-body-cameras-could-be-ices-new-mass-surveillance-tool-00769363

    Okay, that does at least attest to considerable confusion (...which I
    share in my own conflicted views about bodycams and surveillance).

    OK, who is forging postings from "moviepig"?

    --
    Democrats and the liberal media hate President Trump more than they
    love this country.


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  • From The Horny Goat@3:633/10 to All on Mon Apr 6 20:07:32 2026
    On Tue, 31 Mar 2026 06:36:08 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
    wrote:

    On Mar 27, 2026 at 11:24:04 AM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 3/27/2026 2:09 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Mar 27, 2026 at 1:25:03 AM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com>
    wrote:

    The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
    Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:32:08 -0000 (UTC), Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com>: >>>>
    The whole BLM demand for bodycams movement has been one of the biggest >>>>>>> self-owns in the history of race hustling.

    I believe the above line was written by BTR but Adam may know the term >>>>> - I've never heard the term "self-owns" before - is that the same as >>>>> the British football (e.g. what we North Americans call soccer) folks >>>>> call an "own goal"?

    It's "You can't stop thinking about me. I own your headspace." You're >>>> obsessing over having lost a meaningless argument on line in a
    humiliating way rather than just immediately acting like an adult and >>>> owning up to having made a mistake.

    In this case, it was failure to consider that video evidence gathered is >>>> neutral and that a bodycam is going to capture the person being
    encountered by police misbehaving and will not provide evidence of P.I. >>>> to justify a lawsuit against police.

    Earlier this year, Democrats in Congress were demanding that ICE agents be >>> required to wear bodycams, something to which the Republicans readily
    agreed.
    Now, as part of their DHS shutdown demands, they're backtracking and saying,
    "On second thought, we don't really want the cameras on all the time. We >>> demand rules about when they can and can't be recording."

    Nothing says "peaceful protest" like demanding all cameras be turned off. >>> Their problem is that the cameras don't know who the approved villains are >>> and
    tend to capture everything without political bias.

    Googling tells me only that Dems (Mar 24) *want* the bodycams (that
    Biden ordered for *all* govt. cops). Got a cite of the "backtracking"?


    https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/07/democrats-fear-body-cameras-could-be-ices-new-mass-surveillance-tool-00769363

    Pardon my ignorance but what's the benefit of requiring officers to
    wear switched off body cameras?

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  • From moviePig@3:633/10 to All on Tue Apr 7 15:03:01 2026
    On 4/6/2026 11:07 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:
    On Tue, 31 Mar 2026 06:36:08 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
    wrote:

    On Mar 27, 2026 at 11:24:04 AM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote: >>
    On 3/27/2026 2:09 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Mar 27, 2026 at 1:25:03 AM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> >>>> wrote:

    The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
    Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:32:08 -0000 (UTC), Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com>:

    The whole BLM demand for bodycams movement has been one of the biggest
    self-owns in the history of race hustling.

    I believe the above line was written by BTR but Adam may know the term >>>>>> - I've never heard the term "self-owns" before - is that the same as >>>>>> the British football (e.g. what we North Americans call soccer) folks >>>>>> call an "own goal"?

    It's "You can't stop thinking about me. I own your headspace." You're >>>>> obsessing over having lost a meaningless argument on line in a
    humiliating way rather than just immediately acting like an adult and >>>>> owning up to having made a mistake.

    In this case, it was failure to consider that video evidence gathered is
    neutral and that a bodycam is going to capture the person being
    encountered by police misbehaving and will not provide evidence of P.I. >>>>> to justify a lawsuit against police.

    Earlier this year, Democrats in Congress were demanding that ICE agents be
    required to wear bodycams, something to which the Republicans readily >>>> agreed.
    Now, as part of their DHS shutdown demands, they're backtracking and saying,
    "On second thought, we don't really want the cameras on all the time. We >>>> demand rules about when they can and can't be recording."

    Nothing says "peaceful protest" like demanding all cameras be turned off.
    Their problem is that the cameras don't know who the approved villains are
    and
    tend to capture everything without political bias.

    Googling tells me only that Dems (Mar 24) *want* the bodycams (that
    Biden ordered for *all* govt. cops). Got a cite of the "backtracking"?


    https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/07/democrats-fear-body-cameras-could-be-ices-new-mass-surveillance-tool-00769363

    Pardon my ignorance but what's the benefit of requiring officers to
    wear switched off body cameras?

    Allegedly, they should sometimes be off. E.g., privacy protection.



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  • From BTR1701@3:633/10 to All on Tue Apr 7 21:47:20 2026
    moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
    On 4/6/2026 11:07 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:
    On Tue, 31 Mar 2026 06:36:08 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
    wrote:

    On Mar 27, 2026 at 11:24:04 AM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote: >>>
    On 3/27/2026 2:09 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Mar 27, 2026 at 1:25:03 AM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> >>>>> wrote:

    The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
    Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:32:08 -0000 (UTC), Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com>: >>>>>>
    The whole BLM demand for bodycams movement has been one of the biggest
    self-owns in the history of race hustling.

    I believe the above line was written by BTR but Adam may know the term >>>>>>> - I've never heard the term "self-owns" before - is that the same as >>>>>>> the British football (e.g. what we North Americans call soccer) folks >>>>>>> call an "own goal"?

    It's "You can't stop thinking about me. I own your headspace." You're >>>>>> obsessing over having lost a meaningless argument on line in a
    humiliating way rather than just immediately acting like an adult and >>>>>> owning up to having made a mistake.

    In this case, it was failure to consider that video evidence gathered is >>>>>> neutral and that a bodycam is going to capture the person being
    encountered by police misbehaving and will not provide evidence of P.I. >>>>>> to justify a lawsuit against police.

    Earlier this year, Democrats in Congress were demanding that ICE agents be
    required to wear bodycams, something to which the Republicans readily >>>>> agreed.
    Now, as part of their DHS shutdown demands, they're backtracking and saying,
    "On second thought, we don't really want the cameras on all the time. We >>>>> demand rules about when they can and can't be recording."

    Nothing says "peaceful protest" like demanding all cameras be turned off. >>>>> Their problem is that the cameras don't know who the approved villains are
    and
    tend to capture everything without political bias.

    Googling tells me only that Dems (Mar 24) *want* the bodycams (that
    Biden ordered for *all* govt. cops). Got a cite of the "backtracking"? >>>

    https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/07/democrats-fear-body-cameras-could-be-ices-new-mass-surveillance-tool-00769363

    Pardon my ignorance but what's the benefit of requiring officers to
    wear switched off body cameras?

    Allegedly, they should sometimes be off. E.g., privacy protection.

    That?s code for 'narrative protection'.

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  • From moviePig@3:633/10 to All on Tue Apr 7 18:32:19 2026
    On 4/7/2026 5:47 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
    On 4/6/2026 11:07 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:
    On Tue, 31 Mar 2026 06:36:08 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
    wrote:

    On Mar 27, 2026 at 11:24:04 AM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote: >>>>
    On 3/27/2026 2:09 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Mar 27, 2026 at 1:25:03 AM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> >>>>>> wrote:

    The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
    Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:32:08 -0000 (UTC), Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com>:

    The whole BLM demand for bodycams movement has been one of the biggest
    self-owns in the history of race hustling.

    I believe the above line was written by BTR but Adam may know the term >>>>>>>> - I've never heard the term "self-owns" before - is that the same as >>>>>>>> the British football (e.g. what we North Americans call soccer) folks >>>>>>>> call an "own goal"?

    It's "You can't stop thinking about me. I own your headspace." You're >>>>>>> obsessing over having lost a meaningless argument on line in a
    humiliating way rather than just immediately acting like an adult and >>>>>>> owning up to having made a mistake.

    In this case, it was failure to consider that video evidence gathered is
    neutral and that a bodycam is going to capture the person being
    encountered by police misbehaving and will not provide evidence of P.I. >>>>>>> to justify a lawsuit against police.

    Earlier this year, Democrats in Congress were demanding that ICE agents be
    required to wear bodycams, something to which the Republicans readily >>>>>> agreed.
    Now, as part of their DHS shutdown demands, they're backtracking and saying,
    "On second thought, we don't really want the cameras on all the time. We >>>>>> demand rules about when they can and can't be recording."

    Nothing says "peaceful protest" like demanding all cameras be turned off.
    Their problem is that the cameras don't know who the approved villains are
    and
    tend to capture everything without political bias.

    Googling tells me only that Dems (Mar 24) *want* the bodycams (that
    Biden ordered for *all* govt. cops). Got a cite of the "backtracking"? >>>>

    https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/07/democrats-fear-body-cameras-could-be-ices-new-mass-surveillance-tool-00769363

    Pardon my ignorance but what's the benefit of requiring officers to
    wear switched off body cameras?

    Allegedly, they should sometimes be off. E.g., privacy protection.

    That?s code for 'narrative protection'.

    'On' should be the default, with 'off' elapsing after, say, 90 seconds.



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  • From super70s@3:633/10 to All on Tue Apr 7 17:35:44 2026
    On 2026-03-31 23:21:09 +0000, Pluted Pup said:

    On 3/21/26 2:37 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    Essex police have turned off their live facial recognition cameras as they >> were catching too many black people committing crimes. They have also admitted
    that it was extremely rare the cameras would flag somebody up who wasn't on >> the watchlist.

    They put up cameras to catch bad people, the cameras caught the bad people, >> but because they were predominantly black, the cameras had to go.

    https://x.com/BROKENBRITAIN0/status/2034870668265701418?s=20

    ------------------------------
    So rather than arrest the criminals regardless of their skin color, the
    government deemed the *cameras* (and therefore, one assumes, reality) to be >> racist and got rid of them. Sounds about right.

    Which supports the notion that crime is more of
    a policy than a lack of technology; none of
    the surveillance systems are being used to
    stop crime in high crime areas, whether in
    Britain or the USA. It's like the camera
    systems are being used as to support "designated
    high crime neighborhoods", where being a crime
    victim is considered to be a case of "the bitch
    got what he deserved" or in more plain
    language as the sadistic philosophy that "victims
    always deserve it".

    Every other post from this guy is about some "outrage" in the UK,
    apparently he thinks everything going on in the US under Trump now is a
    utopia full of unicorns.


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  • From BTR1701@3:633/10 to All on Wed Apr 8 07:38:16 2026
    super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:
    On 2026-03-31 23:21:09 +0000, Pluted Pup said:

    On 3/21/26 2:37 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    Essex police have turned off their live facial recognition cameras as they >>> were catching too many black people committing crimes. They have also admitted
    that it was extremely rare the cameras would flag somebody up who wasn't on >>> the watchlist.

    They put up cameras to catch bad people, the cameras caught the bad people, >>> but because they were predominantly black, the cameras had to go.

    https://x.com/BROKENBRITAIN0/status/2034870668265701418?s=20

    ------------------------------
    So rather than arrest the criminals regardless of their skin color, the
    government deemed the *cameras* (and therefore, one assumes, reality) to be >>> racist and got rid of them. Sounds about right.

    Which supports the notion that crime is more of
    a policy than a lack of technology; none of
    the surveillance systems are being used to
    stop crime in high crime areas, whether in
    Britain or the USA. It's like the camera
    systems are being used as to support "designated
    high crime neighborhoods", where being a crime
    victim is considered to be a case of "the bitch
    got what he deserved" or in more plain
    language as the sadistic philosophy that "victims
    always deserve it".

    Every other post from this guy is about some "outrage" in the UK,
    apparently he thinks everything going on in the US under Trump now is a utopia full of unicorns.

    Super70s just hates it that he can't figure out a way to blame the leftist authoritarianism overtaking Europe on Trump.

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  • From NoBody@3:633/10 to All on Wed Apr 8 07:22:12 2026
    On Tue, 7 Apr 2026 15:03:01 -0400, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
    wrote:

    On 4/6/2026 11:07 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:
    On Tue, 31 Mar 2026 06:36:08 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
    wrote:

    On Mar 27, 2026 at 11:24:04 AM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote: >>>
    On 3/27/2026 2:09 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Mar 27, 2026 at 1:25:03 AM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> >>>>> wrote:

    The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
    Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:32:08 -0000 (UTC), Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com>:

    The whole BLM demand for bodycams movement has been one of the biggest
    self-owns in the history of race hustling.

    I believe the above line was written by BTR but Adam may know the term
    - I've never heard the term "self-owns" before - is that the same as >>>>>>> the British football (e.g. what we North Americans call soccer) folks >>>>>>> call an "own goal"?

    It's "You can't stop thinking about me. I own your headspace." You're >>>>>> obsessing over having lost a meaningless argument on line in a
    humiliating way rather than just immediately acting like an adult and >>>>>> owning up to having made a mistake.

    In this case, it was failure to consider that video evidence gathered is
    neutral and that a bodycam is going to capture the person being
    encountered by police misbehaving and will not provide evidence of P.I.
    to justify a lawsuit against police.

    Earlier this year, Democrats in Congress were demanding that ICE agents be
    required to wear bodycams, something to which the Republicans readily >>>>> agreed.
    Now, as part of their DHS shutdown demands, they're backtracking and saying,
    "On second thought, we don't really want the cameras on all the time. We
    demand rules about when they can and can't be recording."

    Nothing says "peaceful protest" like demanding all cameras be turned off.
    Their problem is that the cameras don't know who the approved villains are
    and
    tend to capture everything without political bias.

    Googling tells me only that Dems (Mar 24) *want* the bodycams (that
    Biden ordered for *all* govt. cops). Got a cite of the "backtracking"? >>>

    https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/07/democrats-fear-body-cameras-could-be-ices-new-mass-surveillance-tool-00769363

    Pardon my ignorance but what's the benefit of requiring officers to
    wear switched off body cameras?

    Allegedly, they should sometimes be off. E.g., privacy protection.


    Thereby defeating the purpose of having them in the first place...

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  • From NoBody@3:633/10 to All on Wed Apr 8 07:23:52 2026
    On Tue, 7 Apr 2026 18:32:19 -0400, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
    wrote:

    On 4/7/2026 5:47 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
    On 4/6/2026 11:07 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:
    On Tue, 31 Mar 2026 06:36:08 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
    wrote:

    On Mar 27, 2026 at 11:24:04 AM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 3/27/2026 2:09 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Mar 27, 2026 at 1:25:03 AM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> >>>>>>> wrote:

    The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
    Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:32:08 -0000 (UTC), Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com>:

    The whole BLM demand for bodycams movement has been one of the biggest
    self-owns in the history of race hustling.

    I believe the above line was written by BTR but Adam may know the term
    - I've never heard the term "self-owns" before - is that the same as >>>>>>>>> the British football (e.g. what we North Americans call soccer) folks >>>>>>>>> call an "own goal"?

    It's "You can't stop thinking about me. I own your headspace." You're >>>>>>>> obsessing over having lost a meaningless argument on line in a >>>>>>>> humiliating way rather than just immediately acting like an adult and >>>>>>>> owning up to having made a mistake.

    In this case, it was failure to consider that video evidence gathered is
    neutral and that a bodycam is going to capture the person being >>>>>>>> encountered by police misbehaving and will not provide evidence of P.I.
    to justify a lawsuit against police.

    Earlier this year, Democrats in Congress were demanding that ICE agents be
    required to wear bodycams, something to which the Republicans readily >>>>>>> agreed.
    Now, as part of their DHS shutdown demands, they're backtracking and saying,
    "On second thought, we don't really want the cameras on all the time. We
    demand rules about when they can and can't be recording."

    Nothing says "peaceful protest" like demanding all cameras be turned off.
    Their problem is that the cameras don't know who the approved villains are
    and
    tend to capture everything without political bias.

    Googling tells me only that Dems (Mar 24) *want* the bodycams (that >>>>>> Biden ordered for *all* govt. cops). Got a cite of the "backtracking"? >>>>>

    https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/07/democrats-fear-body-cameras-could-be-ices-new-mass-surveillance-tool-00769363

    Pardon my ignorance but what's the benefit of requiring officers to
    wear switched off body cameras?

    Allegedly, they should sometimes be off. E.g., privacy protection.

    That?s code for 'narrative protection'.

    'On' should be the default, with 'off' elapsing after, say, 90 seconds.


    There's no logic in that since incidents are rarely 90 seconds long.
    Sounds like the left is looking for ways to get around them being seen
    in their illegal behavior.

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  • From moviePig@3:633/10 to All on Wed Apr 8 11:01:59 2026
    On 4/8/2026 7:23 AM, NoBody wrote:
    On Tue, 7 Apr 2026 18:32:19 -0400, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
    wrote:

    On 4/7/2026 5:47 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
    On 4/6/2026 11:07 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:
    On Tue, 31 Mar 2026 06:36:08 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
    wrote:

    On Mar 27, 2026 at 11:24:04 AM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 3/27/2026 2:09 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Mar 27, 2026 at 1:25:03 AM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> >>>>>>>> wrote:

    The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
    Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:32:08 -0000 (UTC), Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com>:

    The whole BLM demand for bodycams movement has been one of the biggest
    self-owns in the history of race hustling.

    I believe the above line was written by BTR but Adam may know the term
    - I've never heard the term "self-owns" before - is that the same as >>>>>>>>>> the British football (e.g. what we North Americans call soccer) folks
    call an "own goal"?

    It's "You can't stop thinking about me. I own your headspace." You're >>>>>>>>> obsessing over having lost a meaningless argument on line in a >>>>>>>>> humiliating way rather than just immediately acting like an adult and >>>>>>>>> owning up to having made a mistake.

    In this case, it was failure to consider that video evidence gathered is
    neutral and that a bodycam is going to capture the person being >>>>>>>>> encountered by police misbehaving and will not provide evidence of P.I.
    to justify a lawsuit against police.

    Earlier this year, Democrats in Congress were demanding that ICE agents be
    required to wear bodycams, something to which the Republicans readily >>>>>>>> agreed.
    Now, as part of their DHS shutdown demands, they're backtracking and saying,
    "On second thought, we don't really want the cameras on all the time. We
    demand rules about when they can and can't be recording."

    Nothing says "peaceful protest" like demanding all cameras be turned off.
    Their problem is that the cameras don't know who the approved villains are
    and
    tend to capture everything without political bias.

    Googling tells me only that Dems (Mar 24) *want* the bodycams (that >>>>>>> Biden ordered for *all* govt. cops). Got a cite of the "backtracking"? >>>>>>

    https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/07/democrats-fear-body-cameras-could-be-ices-new-mass-surveillance-tool-00769363

    Pardon my ignorance but what's the benefit of requiring officers to
    wear switched off body cameras?

    Allegedly, they should sometimes be off. E.g., privacy protection.

    That?s code for 'narrative protection'.

    'On' should be the default, with 'off' elapsing after, say, 90 seconds.


    There's no logic in that since incidents are rarely 90 seconds long.
    Sounds like the left is looking for ways to get around them being seen
    in their illegal behavior.

    How many seconds would constitute "logic"?

    Btw, the "left" wants the cameras *on*. What's alleged above is that
    they're demanding a hypocritical exception for protected minorities.



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  • From moviePig@3:633/10 to All on Wed Apr 8 11:08:35 2026
    On 4/8/2026 3:38 AM, BTR1701 wrote:
    super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:
    On 2026-03-31 23:21:09 +0000, Pluted Pup said:

    On 3/21/26 2:37 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    Essex police have turned off their live facial recognition cameras as they >>>> were catching too many black people committing crimes. They have also admitted
    that it was extremely rare the cameras would flag somebody up who wasn't on
    the watchlist.

    They put up cameras to catch bad people, the cameras caught the bad people,
    but because they were predominantly black, the cameras had to go.

    https://x.com/BROKENBRITAIN0/status/2034870668265701418?s=20

    ------------------------------
    So rather than arrest the criminals regardless of their skin color, the >>>> government deemed the *cameras* (and therefore, one assumes, reality) to be
    racist and got rid of them. Sounds about right.

    Which supports the notion that crime is more of
    a policy than a lack of technology; none of
    the surveillance systems are being used to
    stop crime in high crime areas, whether in
    Britain or the USA. It's like the camera
    systems are being used as to support "designated
    high crime neighborhoods", where being a crime
    victim is considered to be a case of "the bitch
    got what he deserved" or in more plain
    language as the sadistic philosophy that "victims
    always deserve it".

    Every other post from this guy is about some "outrage" in the UK,
    apparently he thinks everything going on in the US under Trump now is a
    utopia full of unicorns.

    Super70s just hates it that he can't figure out a way to blame the leftist authoritarianism overtaking Europe on Trump.

    Well, Trump proudly *is* authoritarianism's poster child...



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  • From BTR1701@3:633/10 to All on Wed Apr 8 17:46:55 2026
    NoBody <NoBody@nowhere.com> wrote:
    On Tue, 7 Apr 2026 15:03:01 -0400, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
    wrote:

    On 4/6/2026 11:07 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:
    On Tue, 31 Mar 2026 06:36:08 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
    wrote:

    On Mar 27, 2026 at 11:24:04 AM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote: >>>>
    On 3/27/2026 2:09 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Mar 27, 2026 at 1:25:03 AM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> >>>>>> wrote:

    The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
    Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:32:08 -0000 (UTC), Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com>:

    The whole BLM demand for bodycams movement has been one of the biggest
    self-owns in the history of race hustling.

    I believe the above line was written by BTR but Adam may know the term >>>>>>>> - I've never heard the term "self-owns" before - is that the same as >>>>>>>> the British football (e.g. what we North Americans call soccer) folks >>>>>>>> call an "own goal"?

    It's "You can't stop thinking about me. I own your headspace." You're >>>>>>> obsessing over having lost a meaningless argument on line in a
    humiliating way rather than just immediately acting like an adult and >>>>>>> owning up to having made a mistake.

    In this case, it was failure to consider that video evidence gathered is
    neutral and that a bodycam is going to capture the person being
    encountered by police misbehaving and will not provide evidence of P.I. >>>>>>> to justify a lawsuit against police.

    Earlier this year, Democrats in Congress were demanding that ICE agents be
    required to wear bodycams, something to which the Republicans readily >>>>>> agreed.
    Now, as part of their DHS shutdown demands, they're backtracking and saying,
    "On second thought, we don't really want the cameras on all the time. We >>>>>> demand rules about when they can and can't be recording."

    Nothing says "peaceful protest" like demanding all cameras be turned off.
    Their problem is that the cameras don't know who the approved villains are
    and
    tend to capture everything without political bias.

    Googling tells me only that Dems (Mar 24) *want* the bodycams (that
    Biden ordered for *all* govt. cops). Got a cite of the "backtracking"? >>>>

    https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/07/democrats-fear-body-cameras-could-be-ices-new-mass-surveillance-tool-00769363

    Pardon my ignorance but what's the benefit of requiring officers to
    wear switched off body cameras?

    Allegedly, they should sometimes be off. E.g., privacy protection.


    Thereby defeating the purpose of having them in the first place...

    As if people have any legal expectation of privacy in a public place at a public protest to begin with.

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  • From BTR1701@3:633/10 to All on Wed Apr 8 17:46:56 2026
    moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
    On 4/8/2026 7:23 AM, NoBody wrote:
    On Tue, 7 Apr 2026 18:32:19 -0400, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
    wrote:

    On 4/7/2026 5:47 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
    On 4/6/2026 11:07 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:
    On Tue, 31 Mar 2026 06:36:08 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> >>>>>> wrote:

    On Mar 27, 2026 at 11:24:04 AM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 3/27/2026 2:09 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Mar 27, 2026 at 1:25:03 AM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com>
    wrote:

    The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
    Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:32:08 -0000 (UTC), Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com>:

    The whole BLM demand for bodycams movement has been one of the biggest
    self-owns in the history of race hustling.

    I believe the above line was written by BTR but Adam may know the term
    - I've never heard the term "self-owns" before - is that the same as
    the British football (e.g. what we North Americans call soccer) folks
    call an "own goal"?

    It's "You can't stop thinking about me. I own your headspace." You're
    obsessing over having lost a meaningless argument on line in a >>>>>>>>>> humiliating way rather than just immediately acting like an adult and
    owning up to having made a mistake.

    In this case, it was failure to consider that video evidence gathered is
    neutral and that a bodycam is going to capture the person being >>>>>>>>>> encountered by police misbehaving and will not provide evidence of P.I.
    to justify a lawsuit against police.

    Earlier this year, Democrats in Congress were demanding that ICE agents be
    required to wear bodycams, something to which the Republicans readily >>>>>>>>> agreed.
    Now, as part of their DHS shutdown demands, they're backtracking and saying,
    "On second thought, we don't really want the cameras on all the time. We
    demand rules about when they can and can't be recording."

    Nothing says "peaceful protest" like demanding all cameras be turned off.
    Their problem is that the cameras don't know who the approved villains are
    and
    tend to capture everything without political bias.

    Googling tells me only that Dems (Mar 24) *want* the bodycams (that >>>>>>>> Biden ordered for *all* govt. cops). Got a cite of the "backtracking"?


    https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/07/democrats-fear-body-cameras-could-be-ices-new-mass-surveillance-tool-00769363

    Pardon my ignorance but what's the benefit of requiring officers to >>>>>> wear switched off body cameras?

    Allegedly, they should sometimes be off. E.g., privacy protection.

    That?s code for 'narrative protection'.

    'On' should be the default, with 'off' elapsing after, say, 90 seconds.


    There's no logic in that since incidents are rarely 90 seconds long.
    Sounds like the left is looking for ways to get around them being seen
    in their illegal behavior.

    How many seconds would constitute "logic"?

    Btw, the "left" wants the cameras *on*. What's alleged above is that they're demanding a hypocritical exception for protected minorities.

    Since when do minorities have a greater expectation of privacy in public
    places than anyone else?

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  • From moviePig@3:633/10 to All on Wed Apr 8 14:48:56 2026
    On 4/8/2026 1:46 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    NoBody <NoBody@nowhere.com> wrote:
    On Tue, 7 Apr 2026 15:03:01 -0400, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
    wrote:

    On 4/6/2026 11:07 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:
    On Tue, 31 Mar 2026 06:36:08 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
    wrote:

    On Mar 27, 2026 at 11:24:04 AM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 3/27/2026 2:09 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Mar 27, 2026 at 1:25:03 AM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> >>>>>>> wrote:

    The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
    Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:32:08 -0000 (UTC), Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com>:

    The whole BLM demand for bodycams movement has been one of the biggest
    self-owns in the history of race hustling.

    I believe the above line was written by BTR but Adam may know the term
    - I've never heard the term "self-owns" before - is that the same as >>>>>>>>> the British football (e.g. what we North Americans call soccer) folks >>>>>>>>> call an "own goal"?

    It's "You can't stop thinking about me. I own your headspace." You're >>>>>>>> obsessing over having lost a meaningless argument on line in a >>>>>>>> humiliating way rather than just immediately acting like an adult and >>>>>>>> owning up to having made a mistake.

    In this case, it was failure to consider that video evidence gathered is
    neutral and that a bodycam is going to capture the person being >>>>>>>> encountered by police misbehaving and will not provide evidence of P.I.
    to justify a lawsuit against police.

    Earlier this year, Democrats in Congress were demanding that ICE agents be
    required to wear bodycams, something to which the Republicans readily >>>>>>> agreed.
    Now, as part of their DHS shutdown demands, they're backtracking and saying,
    "On second thought, we don't really want the cameras on all the time. We
    demand rules about when they can and can't be recording."

    Nothing says "peaceful protest" like demanding all cameras be turned off.
    Their problem is that the cameras don't know who the approved villains are
    and
    tend to capture everything without political bias.

    Googling tells me only that Dems (Mar 24) *want* the bodycams (that >>>>>> Biden ordered for *all* govt. cops). Got a cite of the "backtracking"? >>>>>

    https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/07/democrats-fear-body-cameras-could-be-ices-new-mass-surveillance-tool-00769363

    Pardon my ignorance but what's the benefit of requiring officers to
    wear switched off body cameras?

    Allegedly, they should sometimes be off. E.g., privacy protection.


    Thereby defeating the purpose of having them in the first place...

    As if people have any legal expectation of privacy in a public place at a public protest to begin with.

    Afaics, it's fuzzier than that. E.g., if you stroll daily at lunchtime
    to your favorite sidewalk bodega, and I surreptitiously video you and
    post a compilation on YouTube, I think that's invasive and actionable.



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  • From BTR1701@3:633/10 to All on Wed Apr 8 19:07:07 2026
    moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
    On 4/8/2026 1:46 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    NoBody <NoBody@nowhere.com> wrote:
    On Tue, 7 Apr 2026 15:03:01 -0400, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
    wrote:

    On 4/6/2026 11:07 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:
    On Tue, 31 Mar 2026 06:36:08 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
    wrote:

    On Mar 27, 2026 at 11:24:04 AM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 3/27/2026 2:09 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Mar 27, 2026 at 1:25:03 AM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> >>>>>>>> wrote:

    The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
    Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:32:08 -0000 (UTC), Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com>:

    The whole BLM demand for bodycams movement has been one of the biggest
    self-owns in the history of race hustling.

    I believe the above line was written by BTR but Adam may know the term
    - I've never heard the term "self-owns" before - is that the same as >>>>>>>>>> the British football (e.g. what we North Americans call soccer) folks
    call an "own goal"?

    It's "You can't stop thinking about me. I own your headspace." You're >>>>>>>>> obsessing over having lost a meaningless argument on line in a >>>>>>>>> humiliating way rather than just immediately acting like an adult and >>>>>>>>> owning up to having made a mistake.

    In this case, it was failure to consider that video evidence gathered is
    neutral and that a bodycam is going to capture the person being >>>>>>>>> encountered by police misbehaving and will not provide evidence of P.I.
    to justify a lawsuit against police.

    Earlier this year, Democrats in Congress were demanding that ICE agents be
    required to wear bodycams, something to which the Republicans readily >>>>>>>> agreed.
    Now, as part of their DHS shutdown demands, they're backtracking and saying,
    "On second thought, we don't really want the cameras on all the time. We
    demand rules about when they can and can't be recording."

    Nothing says "peaceful protest" like demanding all cameras be turned off.
    Their problem is that the cameras don't know who the approved villains are
    and
    tend to capture everything without political bias.

    Googling tells me only that Dems (Mar 24) *want* the bodycams (that >>>>>>> Biden ordered for *all* govt. cops). Got a cite of the "backtracking"? >>>>>>

    https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/07/democrats-fear-body-cameras-could-be-ices-new-mass-surveillance-tool-00769363

    Pardon my ignorance but what's the benefit of requiring officers to
    wear switched off body cameras?

    Allegedly, they should sometimes be off. E.g., privacy protection.


    Thereby defeating the purpose of having them in the first place...

    As if people have any legal expectation of privacy in a public place at a
    public protest to begin with.

    Afaics, it's fuzzier than that. E.g., if you stroll daily at lunchtime
    to your favorite sidewalk bodega, and I surreptitiously video you and
    post a compilation on YouTube, I think that's invasive and actionable.

    The key words there are "I think" because that?s all is: your opinion,
    which has no basis in law.

    And even if it did, that's not what would be happening with the police body cams at protests.

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  • From moviePig@3:633/10 to All on Wed Apr 8 17:26:10 2026
    On 4/8/2026 3:07 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
    On 4/8/2026 1:46 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    NoBody <NoBody@nowhere.com> wrote:
    On Tue, 7 Apr 2026 15:03:01 -0400, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
    wrote:

    On 4/6/2026 11:07 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:
    On Tue, 31 Mar 2026 06:36:08 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> >>>>>> wrote:

    On Mar 27, 2026 at 11:24:04 AM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 3/27/2026 2:09 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Mar 27, 2026 at 1:25:03 AM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com>
    wrote:

    The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
    Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:32:08 -0000 (UTC), Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com>:

    The whole BLM demand for bodycams movement has been one of the biggest
    self-owns in the history of race hustling.

    I believe the above line was written by BTR but Adam may know the term
    - I've never heard the term "self-owns" before - is that the same as
    the British football (e.g. what we North Americans call soccer) folks
    call an "own goal"?

    It's "You can't stop thinking about me. I own your headspace." You're
    obsessing over having lost a meaningless argument on line in a >>>>>>>>>> humiliating way rather than just immediately acting like an adult and
    owning up to having made a mistake.

    In this case, it was failure to consider that video evidence gathered is
    neutral and that a bodycam is going to capture the person being >>>>>>>>>> encountered by police misbehaving and will not provide evidence of P.I.
    to justify a lawsuit against police.

    Earlier this year, Democrats in Congress were demanding that ICE agents be
    required to wear bodycams, something to which the Republicans readily >>>>>>>>> agreed.
    Now, as part of their DHS shutdown demands, they're backtracking and saying,
    "On second thought, we don't really want the cameras on all the time. We
    demand rules about when they can and can't be recording."

    Nothing says "peaceful protest" like demanding all cameras be turned off.
    Their problem is that the cameras don't know who the approved villains are
    and
    tend to capture everything without political bias.

    Googling tells me only that Dems (Mar 24) *want* the bodycams (that >>>>>>>> Biden ordered for *all* govt. cops). Got a cite of the "backtracking"?


    https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/07/democrats-fear-body-cameras-could-be-ices-new-mass-surveillance-tool-00769363

    Pardon my ignorance but what's the benefit of requiring officers to >>>>>> wear switched off body cameras?

    Allegedly, they should sometimes be off. E.g., privacy protection.


    Thereby defeating the purpose of having them in the first place...

    As if people have any legal expectation of privacy in a public place at a >>> public protest to begin with.

    Afaics, it's fuzzier than that. E.g., if you stroll daily at lunchtime
    to your favorite sidewalk bodega, and I surreptitiously video you and
    post a compilation on YouTube, I think that's invasive and actionable.

    The key words there are "I think" because that?s all is: your opinion,
    which has no basis in law.

    Afaics, it's fuzzier than that, at least according to Google's AI:

    "Posting photos of someone without their consent is generally risky
    and can violate privacy laws, social media policies, or constitute
    harassment, even if taken in public."


    And even if it did, that's not what would be happening with the police body cams at protests.

    Probably not. I just question the blanket license of "a public place".



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  • From BTR1701@3:633/10 to All on Wed Apr 8 22:02:29 2026
    moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
    On 4/8/2026 3:07 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
    On 4/8/2026 1:46 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    NoBody <NoBody@nowhere.com> wrote:
    On Tue, 7 Apr 2026 15:03:01 -0400, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
    wrote:

    On 4/6/2026 11:07 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:
    On Tue, 31 Mar 2026 06:36:08 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> >>>>>>> wrote:

    On Mar 27, 2026 at 11:24:04 AM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 3/27/2026 2:09 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Mar 27, 2026 at 1:25:03 AM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com>
    wrote:

    The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
    Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:32:08 -0000 (UTC), Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com>:

    The whole BLM demand for bodycams movement has been one of the biggest
    self-owns in the history of race hustling.

    I believe the above line was written by BTR but Adam may know the term
    - I've never heard the term "self-owns" before - is that the same as
    the British football (e.g. what we North Americans call soccer) folks
    call an "own goal"?

    It's "You can't stop thinking about me. I own your headspace." You're
    obsessing over having lost a meaningless argument on line in a >>>>>>>>>>> humiliating way rather than just immediately acting like an adult and
    owning up to having made a mistake.

    In this case, it was failure to consider that video evidence gathered is
    neutral and that a bodycam is going to capture the person being >>>>>>>>>>> encountered by police misbehaving and will not provide evidence of P.I.
    to justify a lawsuit against police.

    Earlier this year, Democrats in Congress were demanding that ICE agents be
    required to wear bodycams, something to which the Republicans readily
    agreed.
    Now, as part of their DHS shutdown demands, they're backtracking and saying,
    "On second thought, we don't really want the cameras on all the time. We
    demand rules about when they can and can't be recording."

    Nothing says "peaceful protest" like demanding all cameras be turned off.
    Their problem is that the cameras don't know who the approved villains are
    and
    tend to capture everything without political bias.

    Googling tells me only that Dems (Mar 24) *want* the bodycams (that >>>>>>>>> Biden ordered for *all* govt. cops). Got a cite of the "backtracking"?


    https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/07/democrats-fear-body-cameras-could-be-ices-new-mass-surveillance-tool-00769363

    Pardon my ignorance but what's the benefit of requiring officers to >>>>>>> wear switched off body cameras?

    Allegedly, they should sometimes be off. E.g., privacy protection. >>>>>>

    Thereby defeating the purpose of having them in the first place...

    As if people have any legal expectation of privacy in a public place at a >>>> public protest to begin with.

    Afaics, it's fuzzier than that. E.g., if you stroll daily at lunchtime
    to your favorite sidewalk bodega, and I surreptitiously video you and
    post a compilation on YouTube, I think that's invasive and actionable.

    The key words there are "I think" because that?s all is: your opinion,
    which has no basis in law.

    Afaics, it's fuzzier than that, at least according to Google's AI:

    "Posting photos of someone without their consent is generally risky
    and can violate privacy laws, social media policies, or constitute harassment, even if taken in public."

    Per the Supreme Court, if you are legally allowed to be in a place, you can photograph or video record anything you can see from that place.

    And even if it did, that's not what would be happening with the police body >> cams at protests.

    Probably not. I just question the blanket license of "a public place".




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  • From moviePig@3:633/10 to All on Wed Apr 8 18:39:00 2026
    On 4/8/2026 6:02 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
    On 4/8/2026 3:07 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
    On 4/8/2026 1:46 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    NoBody <NoBody@nowhere.com> wrote:
    On Tue, 7 Apr 2026 15:03:01 -0400, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
    wrote:

    On 4/6/2026 11:07 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:
    On Tue, 31 Mar 2026 06:36:08 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> >>>>>>>> wrote:

    On Mar 27, 2026 at 11:24:04 AM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 3/27/2026 2:09 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Mar 27, 2026 at 1:25:03 AM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com>
    wrote:

    The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
    Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:32:08 -0000 (UTC), Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com>:

    The whole BLM demand for bodycams movement has been one of the biggest
    self-owns in the history of race hustling.

    I believe the above line was written by BTR but Adam may know the term
    - I've never heard the term "self-owns" before - is that the same as
    the British football (e.g. what we North Americans call soccer) folks
    call an "own goal"?

    It's "You can't stop thinking about me. I own your headspace." You're
    obsessing over having lost a meaningless argument on line in a >>>>>>>>>>>> humiliating way rather than just immediately acting like an adult and
    owning up to having made a mistake.

    In this case, it was failure to consider that video evidence gathered is
    neutral and that a bodycam is going to capture the person being >>>>>>>>>>>> encountered by police misbehaving and will not provide evidence of P.I.
    to justify a lawsuit against police.

    Earlier this year, Democrats in Congress were demanding that ICE agents be
    required to wear bodycams, something to which the Republicans readily
    agreed.
    Now, as part of their DHS shutdown demands, they're backtracking and saying,
    "On second thought, we don't really want the cameras on all the time. We
    demand rules about when they can and can't be recording." >>>>>>>>>>>
    Nothing says "peaceful protest" like demanding all cameras be turned off.
    Their problem is that the cameras don't know who the approved villains are
    and
    tend to capture everything without political bias.

    Googling tells me only that Dems (Mar 24) *want* the bodycams (that >>>>>>>>>> Biden ordered for *all* govt. cops). Got a cite of the "backtracking"?


    https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/07/democrats-fear-body-cameras-could-be-ices-new-mass-surveillance-tool-00769363

    Pardon my ignorance but what's the benefit of requiring officers to >>>>>>>> wear switched off body cameras?

    Allegedly, they should sometimes be off. E.g., privacy protection. >>>>>>>

    Thereby defeating the purpose of having them in the first place...

    As if people have any legal expectation of privacy in a public place at a >>>>> public protest to begin with.

    Afaics, it's fuzzier than that. E.g., if you stroll daily at lunchtime >>>> to your favorite sidewalk bodega, and I surreptitiously video you and
    post a compilation on YouTube, I think that's invasive and actionable.

    The key words there are "I think" because that?s all is: your opinion,
    which has no basis in law.

    Afaics, it's fuzzier than that, at least according to Google's AI:

    "Posting photos of someone without their consent is generally risky
    and can violate privacy laws, social media policies, or constitute
    harassment, even if taken in public."

    Per the Supreme Court, if you are legally allowed to be in a place, you can photograph or video record anything you can see from that place.

    In my example, the infraction would occur not when I pressed 'Record'.
    but when I put the recording on youTube.


    And even if it did, that's not what would be happening with the police body >>> cams at protests.

    Probably not. I just question the blanket license of "a public place".





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  • From BTR1701@3:633/10 to All on Thu Apr 9 01:59:55 2026
    moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
    On 4/8/2026 6:02 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
    On 4/8/2026 3:07 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
    On 4/8/2026 1:46 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    NoBody <NoBody@nowhere.com> wrote:
    On Tue, 7 Apr 2026 15:03:01 -0400, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> >>>>>>> wrote:

    On 4/6/2026 11:07 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:
    On Tue, 31 Mar 2026 06:36:08 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> >>>>>>>>> wrote:

    On Mar 27, 2026 at 11:24:04 AM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 3/27/2026 2:09 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Mar 27, 2026 at 1:25:03 AM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com>
    wrote:

    The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
    Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:32:08 -0000 (UTC), Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com>:

    The whole BLM demand for bodycams movement has been one of the biggest
    self-owns in the history of race hustling.

    I believe the above line was written by BTR but Adam may know the term
    - I've never heard the term "self-owns" before - is that the same as
    the British football (e.g. what we North Americans call soccer) folks
    call an "own goal"?

    It's "You can't stop thinking about me. I own your headspace." You're
    obsessing over having lost a meaningless argument on line in a >>>>>>>>>>>>> humiliating way rather than just immediately acting like an adult and
    owning up to having made a mistake.

    In this case, it was failure to consider that video evidence gathered is
    neutral and that a bodycam is going to capture the person being >>>>>>>>>>>>> encountered by police misbehaving and will not provide evidence of P.I.
    to justify a lawsuit against police.

    Earlier this year, Democrats in Congress were demanding that ICE agents be
    required to wear bodycams, something to which the Republicans readily
    agreed.
    Now, as part of their DHS shutdown demands, they're backtracking and saying,
    "On second thought, we don't really want the cameras on all the time. We
    demand rules about when they can and can't be recording." >>>>>>>>>>>>
    Nothing says "peaceful protest" like demanding all cameras be turned off.
    Their problem is that the cameras don't know who the approved villains are
    and
    tend to capture everything without political bias.

    Googling tells me only that Dems (Mar 24) *want* the bodycams (that >>>>>>>>>>> Biden ordered for *all* govt. cops). Got a cite of the "backtracking"?


    https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/07/democrats-fear-body-cameras-could-be-ices-new-mass-surveillance-tool-00769363

    Pardon my ignorance but what's the benefit of requiring officers to >>>>>>>>> wear switched off body cameras?

    Allegedly, they should sometimes be off. E.g., privacy protection. >>>>>>>>

    Thereby defeating the purpose of having them in the first place... >>>>>>
    As if people have any legal expectation of privacy in a public place at a
    public protest to begin with.

    Afaics, it's fuzzier than that. E.g., if you stroll daily at lunchtime >>>>> to your favorite sidewalk bodega, and I surreptitiously video you and >>>>> post a compilation on YouTube, I think that's invasive and actionable. >>>>
    The key words there are "I think" because that?s all is: your opinion, >>>> which has no basis in law.

    Afaics, it's fuzzier than that, at least according to Google's AI:

    "Posting photos of someone without their consent is generally risky
    and can violate privacy laws, social media policies, or constitute
    harassment, even if taken in public."

    Per the Supreme Court, if you are legally allowed to be in a place, you can >> photograph or video record anything you can see from that place.

    In my example, the infraction would occur not when I pressed 'Record'.
    but when I put the recording on youTube.

    And even if it did, that's not what would be happening with the police body
    cams at protests.

    Probably not. I just question the blanket license of "a public place".

    Also not illegal as the hundreds of millions (if not billions) of vacation photos and videos posted online by people which contain complete strangers
    in the background from whom no permission was obtained to record them or
    post them online will attest.


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  • From moviePig@3:633/10 to All on Thu Apr 9 16:20:41 2026
    On 4/8/2026 9:59 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
    On 4/8/2026 6:02 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
    On 4/8/2026 3:07 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
    On 4/8/2026 1:46 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    NoBody <NoBody@nowhere.com> wrote:
    On Tue, 7 Apr 2026 15:03:01 -0400, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> >>>>>>>> wrote:

    On 4/6/2026 11:07 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:
    On Tue, 31 Mar 2026 06:36:08 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> >>>>>>>>>> wrote:

    On Mar 27, 2026 at 11:24:04 AM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 3/27/2026 2:09 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Mar 27, 2026 at 1:25:03 AM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com>
    wrote:

    The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
    Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:32:08 -0000 (UTC), Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com>:

    The whole BLM demand for bodycams movement has been one of the biggest
    self-owns in the history of race hustling.

    I believe the above line was written by BTR but Adam may know the term
    - I've never heard the term "self-owns" before - is that the same as
    the British football (e.g. what we North Americans call soccer) folks
    call an "own goal"?

    It's "You can't stop thinking about me. I own your headspace." You're
    obsessing over having lost a meaningless argument on line in a >>>>>>>>>>>>>> humiliating way rather than just immediately acting like an adult and
    owning up to having made a mistake.

    In this case, it was failure to consider that video evidence gathered is
    neutral and that a bodycam is going to capture the person being >>>>>>>>>>>>>> encountered by police misbehaving and will not provide evidence of P.I.
    to justify a lawsuit against police.

    Earlier this year, Democrats in Congress were demanding that ICE agents be
    required to wear bodycams, something to which the Republicans readily
    agreed.
    Now, as part of their DHS shutdown demands, they're backtracking and saying,
    "On second thought, we don't really want the cameras on all the time. We
    demand rules about when they can and can't be recording." >>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Nothing says "peaceful protest" like demanding all cameras be turned off.
    Their problem is that the cameras don't know who the approved villains are
    and
    tend to capture everything without political bias.

    Googling tells me only that Dems (Mar 24) *want* the bodycams (that
    Biden ordered for *all* govt. cops). Got a cite of the "backtracking"?


    https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/07/democrats-fear-body-cameras-could-be-ices-new-mass-surveillance-tool-00769363

    Pardon my ignorance but what's the benefit of requiring officers to >>>>>>>>>> wear switched off body cameras?

    Allegedly, they should sometimes be off. E.g., privacy protection. >>>>>>>>>

    Thereby defeating the purpose of having them in the first place... >>>>>>>
    As if people have any legal expectation of privacy in a public place at a
    public protest to begin with.

    Afaics, it's fuzzier than that. E.g., if you stroll daily at lunchtime >>>>>> to your favorite sidewalk bodega, and I surreptitiously video you and >>>>>> post a compilation on YouTube, I think that's invasive and actionable. >>>>>
    The key words there are "I think" because that?s all is: your opinion, >>>>> which has no basis in law.

    Afaics, it's fuzzier than that, at least according to Google's AI:

    "Posting photos of someone without their consent is generally risky
    and can violate privacy laws, social media policies, or constitute
    harassment, even if taken in public."

    Per the Supreme Court, if you are legally allowed to be in a place, you can >>> photograph or video record anything you can see from that place.

    In my example, the infraction would occur not when I pressed 'Record'.
    but when I put the recording on youTube.

    And even if it did, that's not what would be happening with the police body
    cams at protests.

    Probably not. I just question the blanket license of "a public place".

    Also not illegal as the hundreds of millions (if not billions) of vacation photos and videos posted online by people which contain complete strangers
    in the background from whom no permission was obtained to record them or
    post them online will attest.

    Google's AI again:

    "Doxxing -- the act of revealing private, personally identifiable information online -- is not inherently illegal in all cases, but it
    becomes illegal when used to threaten, harass, stalk, or intimidate
    someone."

    I maintain that the example I posted amounts to harassment by, at a
    minimum, forcing an unwilling subject into the public eye. E.g.,
    consider if it were done to your daughter...



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  • From The Horny Goat@3:633/10 to All on Sat Apr 11 18:39:01 2026
    On Tue, 7 Apr 2026 15:03:01 -0400, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
    wrote:

    Pardon my ignorance but what's the benefit of requiring officers to
    wear switched off body cameras?

    Allegedly, they should sometimes be off. E.g., privacy protection.

    Besides occasional trips to the loo or doing official duties inside
    the police station (most of which are picked up by other means) when
    exactly?

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  • From The Horny Goat@3:633/10 to All on Sat Apr 11 18:40:42 2026
    On Tue, 07 Apr 2026 21:47:20 +0000, BTR1701 <no_email@invalid.invalid>
    wrote:

    Pardon my ignorance but what's the benefit of requiring officers to
    wear switched off body cameras?

    Allegedly, they should sometimes be off. E.g., privacy protection.

    That?s code for 'narrative protection'.

    The first line "pardon my ignorance but" was me.

    "Narrative protection" is of course code for "My mind is already made
    up - don't bother me with the facts!"

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  • From The Horny Goat@3:633/10 to All on Sat Apr 11 18:43:03 2026
    On Tue, 7 Apr 2026 18:32:19 -0400, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
    wrote:

    Allegedly, they should sometimes be off. E.g., privacy protection.

    That?s code for 'narrative protection'.

    'On' should be the default, with 'off' elapsing after, say, 90 seconds.

    In another posting I suggested that a reasonable reason to shut off a
    chest cam might be while in the restroom. I don't recall many times I
    made a trip to the loo having done my business, almost always
    including hand washing in under 90 seconds.

    If you can you definitely have my respect :)

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    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)
  • From The Horny Goat@3:633/10 to All on Sat Apr 11 18:45:12 2026
    On Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:46:55 +0000, BTR1701 <no_email@invalid.invalid>
    wrote:

    NoBody <NoBody@nowhere.com> wrote:
    On Tue, 7 Apr 2026 15:03:01 -0400, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
    wrote:

    On 4/6/2026 11:07 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:
    On Tue, 31 Mar 2026 06:36:08 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
    wrote:

    On Mar 27, 2026 at 11:24:04 AM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 3/27/2026 2:09 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Mar 27, 2026 at 1:25:03 AM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> >>>>>>> wrote:

    The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
    Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:32:08 -0000 (UTC), Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com>:

    The whole BLM demand for bodycams movement has been one of the biggest
    self-owns in the history of race hustling.

    I believe the above line was written by BTR but Adam may know the term
    - I've never heard the term "self-owns" before - is that the same as >>>>>>>>> the British football (e.g. what we North Americans call soccer) folks >>>>>>>>> call an "own goal"?

    It's "You can't stop thinking about me. I own your headspace." You're >>>>>>>> obsessing over having lost a meaningless argument on line in a >>>>>>>> humiliating way rather than just immediately acting like an adult and >>>>>>>> owning up to having made a mistake.

    In this case, it was failure to consider that video evidence gathered is
    neutral and that a bodycam is going to capture the person being >>>>>>>> encountered by police misbehaving and will not provide evidence of P.I.
    to justify a lawsuit against police.

    Earlier this year, Democrats in Congress were demanding that ICE agents be
    required to wear bodycams, something to which the Republicans readily >>>>>>> agreed.
    Now, as part of their DHS shutdown demands, they're backtracking and saying,
    "On second thought, we don't really want the cameras on all the time. We
    demand rules about when they can and can't be recording."

    Nothing says "peaceful protest" like demanding all cameras be turned off.
    Their problem is that the cameras don't know who the approved villains are
    and
    tend to capture everything without political bias.

    Googling tells me only that Dems (Mar 24) *want* the bodycams (that >>>>>> Biden ordered for *all* govt. cops). Got a cite of the "backtracking"? >>>>>

    https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/07/democrats-fear-body-cameras-could-be-ices-new-mass-surveillance-tool-00769363

    Pardon my ignorance but what's the benefit of requiring officers to
    wear switched off body cameras?

    Allegedly, they should sometimes be off. E.g., privacy protection.


    Thereby defeating the purpose of having them in the first place...

    As if people have any legal expectation of privacy in a public place at a >public protest to begin with.

    Bingo - give that man a gold star!

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  • From The Horny Goat@3:633/10 to All on Sat Apr 11 18:50:00 2026
    On Wed, 8 Apr 2026 17:26:10 -0400, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
    wrote:

    Afaics, it's fuzzier than that, at least according to Google's AI:

    "Posting photos of someone without their consent is generally risky
    and can violate privacy laws, social media policies, or constitute >harassment, even if taken in public."


    And even if it did, that's not what would be happening with the police body >> cams at protests.

    Probably not. I just question the blanket license of "a public place".

    That AI is swifter than most AIs normally are. In general if a police
    officer is using a particular clip as part of a specific prosecution
    then all well and good. And if the judge grants a waiver for public
    release of a particular clip (which I >don't< think should be
    routinely granted) all well and good.

    And I do believe that 'for the purposes of evidence in a criminal or
    civil trial' I don't really have much problem with that. If that means
    95+% of taken video is routinely erased at the end of a holding period
    (which it normally would be barring a prosecution request for it to be
    retained for trial) I fail to see the foul.

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  • From The Horny Goat@3:633/10 to All on Sat Apr 11 18:52:09 2026
    On Wed, 8 Apr 2026 18:39:00 -0400, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
    wrote:

    Per the Supreme Court, if you are legally allowed to be in a place, you can >> photograph or video record anything you can see from that place.

    In my example, the infraction would occur not when I pressed 'Record'.
    but when I put the recording on youTube.

    In the US in a court proceeding is that actually the definition?

    Because if there are no penalties for release of video NOT released
    from privacy legislation for the purposes of a trial then you don't
    have any privacy restrictions at all.

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  • From moviePig@3:633/10 to All on Sun Apr 12 11:36:29 2026
    On 4/11/2026 9:43 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:
    On Tue, 7 Apr 2026 18:32:19 -0400, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
    wrote:

    Allegedly, they should sometimes be off. E.g., privacy protection.

    Thatƒ??s code for 'narrative protection'.

    'On' should be the default, with 'off' elapsing after, say, 90 seconds.

    In another posting I suggested that a reasonable reason to shut off a
    chest cam might be while in the restroom. I don't recall many times I
    made a trip to the loo having done my business, almost always
    including hand washing in under 90 seconds.

    If you can you definitely have my respect :)

    You'd be allowed to keep if off by hitting it every 90 seconds (...which
    would indicate continued intention).



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  • From moviePig@3:633/10 to All on Sun Apr 12 11:45:49 2026
    On 4/11/2026 9:50 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:
    On Wed, 8 Apr 2026 17:26:10 -0400, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
    wrote:

    Afaics, it's fuzzier than that, at least according to Google's AI:

    "Posting photos of someone without their consent is generally risky
    and can violate privacy laws, social media policies, or constitute
    harassment, even if taken in public."


    And even if it did, that's not what would be happening with the police body >>> cams at protests.

    Probably not. I just question the blanket license of "a public place".

    That AI is swifter than most AIs normally are. In general if a police
    officer is using a particular clip as part of a specific prosecution
    then all well and good. And if the judge grants a waiver for public
    release of a particular clip (which I >don't< think should be
    routinely granted) all well and good.

    And I do believe that 'for the purposes of evidence in a criminal or
    civil trial' I don't really have much problem with that. If that means
    95+% of taken video is routinely erased at the end of a holding period
    (which it normally would be barring a prosecution request for it to be retained for trial) I fail to see the foul.

    I'm just asserting (though not professionally) that you can't use photos
    to purposely thrust an unwilling subject into the public eye.



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  • From moviePig@3:633/10 to All on Sun Apr 12 11:49:55 2026
    On 4/11/2026 9:39 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:
    On Tue, 7 Apr 2026 15:03:01 -0400, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
    wrote:

    Pardon my ignorance but what's the benefit of requiring officers to
    wear switched off body cameras?

    Allegedly, they should sometimes be off. E.g., privacy protection.

    Besides occasional trips to the loo or doing official duties inside
    the police station (most of which are picked up by other means) when
    exactly?

    E.g., when a variously compromised victim requests it.



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  • From Adam H. Kerman@3:633/10 to All on Sun Apr 12 21:50:37 2026
    The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
    Wed, 8 Apr 2026 18:39:00 -0400, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    Per the Supreme Court, if you are legally allowed to be in a place, you can >>>photograph or video record anything you can see from that place.

    In my example, the infraction would occur not when I pressed 'Record'.
    but when I put the recording on youTube.

    In the US in a court proceeding is that actually the definition?

    It is not a federal court's ruling in any United States in any Earth in
    the DC multi-verse.

    Because if there are no penalties for release of video NOT released
    from privacy legislation for the purposes of a trial then you don't
    have any privacy restrictions at all.

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  • From The Horny Goat@3:633/10 to All on Tue Apr 21 09:56:32 2026
    On Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:23:52 -0400, NoBody <NoBody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    There's no logic in that since incidents are rarely 90 seconds long.
    Sounds like the left is looking for ways to get around them being seen
    in their illegal behavior.

    Yup sure sounds that way to me too. ("me too" - pun intended)

    Sorry about the late response - puter's been in the shop for a week
    due to something that turned out to be a problem with the cable from
    street to router <sigh>

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  • From The Horny Goat@3:633/10 to All on Tue Apr 21 09:58:55 2026
    On Sun, 12 Apr 2026 11:36:29 -0400, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
    wrote:

    In another posting I suggested that a reasonable reason to shut off a
    chest cam might be while in the restroom. I don't recall many times I
    made a trip to the loo having done my business, almost always
    including hand washing in under 90 seconds.

    If you can you definitely have my respect :)

    You'd be allowed to keep if off by hitting it every 90 seconds (...which >would indicate continued intention).

    Didn't mean to be impertinent but I'd be highly surprised if there has
    ever been an officer who has NEVER visited the loo while on duty.

    Obviously this isn't something you engage them in conversation about
    :)

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  • From moviePig@3:633/10 to All on Tue Apr 21 16:26:13 2026
    On 4/21/2026 12:58 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:
    On Sun, 12 Apr 2026 11:36:29 -0400, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
    wrote:

    In another posting I suggested that a reasonable reason to shut off a
    chest cam might be while in the restroom. I don't recall many times I
    made a trip to the loo having done my business, almost always
    including hand washing in under 90 seconds.

    If you can you definitely have my respect :)

    You'd be allowed to keep if off by hitting it every 90 seconds (...which
    would indicate continued intention).

    Didn't mean to be impertinent but I'd be highly surprised if there has
    ever been an officer who has NEVER visited the loo while on duty.

    Obviously this isn't something you engage them in conversation about
    :)

    Few bathroom activities fully occupy both hands for a whole minute.



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