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So you think the police will kick down the door of the 50,000 people who downloaded the app?



Of course not. My position is that if one person is wrongly persecuted despite breaking no laws, they should not be considered a suspect. Once police decide "We need the list of everyone who downloaded the app.", those 50,000 people are all suspects.

Here's what I _would_ be in favor of:

-Police bust Catalyic Converter Kingpin in one form or another

-Police learn in the course of investigation that said kingpin was a prolific user of said app

-Police subpoena the usernames of accounts that corresponded directly with the kingpin

There's a compromise to be had here without throwing 50,000 into a digital suspect bin when maybe half were people actually complicit to...wait for it...a crime.




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