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If someone were to give a jist of what happened without giving personal/geographic info, one wouldn't be able to ascertain whether it happened in Russia/China/

If someone were to give a jist of what happened without giving personal/geographic info, one wouldn't be able to ascertain whether it happened in Russia/China/Iran/<insert your fav "evil" country>. ----------- Edit: From the down votes it appears that I've hit a nerve here. My reference wasn't this particular article but what happened with her in December. [0] There was an armed raid of her house where her equipment were seiezed. I see it as intimidation for going against the state. Perhaps others don't. 0: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/07/florida-police-raid-data-scientist-coronavirus https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/07/florida-poli...

salmon30salmon 6y ago
Yeah because those countries often allow someone to be turn themselves in and then offer the accused freedom of movement for 250 dollars (10% bail). Oh wait they just poison (Russia), disappear (China) or hang (Iran). Are there problems in the US? Oh certainly. But don't belittle the activists on authoritarian countries by saying someone who was arrested for downloading PII is somehow equivalent to poisoning members of an opposition party.
- kaitai 6y ago
  How does it "belittle activists" to make a comparison?
  - salmon30salmon 6y ago
    Because by saying there is any equivalence between an activist in HK who is risking their life, or a opposition party member in Russia who has already had an attempt on his life and a woman who was charged with a crime that was on the books before she was charged, and which is something she has admitted to doing, is to downplay the risks the folks fighting true fascism take
    - bandyaboot 6y ago
      It’s true. Petty prosecutorial corruption is far too common everywhere for it to be labeled as “something you’d expect to see in Russia/China/etc” given the far worse things that go on in those places. But, please, let’s stop pretending this is something other than petty, obvious political corruption of prosecutorial power. We get it, she probably did something that is a crime by the letter of the law. What’s important—and I think you know this—is whether the decision to go after her so aggressively was the result of her going public about the covid data. For me, the suggestion that that isn’t the case here is comically naive or obtuse.

salmon30salmon 6y ago

Yeah because those countries often allow someone to be turn themselves in and then offer the accused freedom of movement for 250 dollars (10% bail). Oh wait they just poison (Russia), disappear (China) or hang (Iran). Are there problems in the US? Oh certainly. But don't belittle the activists on authoritarian countries by saying someone who was arrested for downloading PII is somehow equivalent to poisoning members of an opposition party.

kaitai 6y ago
How does it "belittle activists" to make a comparison?
- salmon30salmon 6y ago
  Because by saying there is any equivalence between an activist in HK who is risking their life, or a opposition party member in Russia who has already had an attempt on his life and a woman who was charged with a crime that was on the books before she was charged, and which is something she has admitted to doing, is to downplay the risks the folks fighting true fascism take
  - bandyaboot 6y ago
    It’s true. Petty prosecutorial corruption is far too common everywhere for it to be labeled as “something you’d expect to see in Russia/China/etc” given the far worse things that go on in those places. But, please, let’s stop pretending this is something other than petty, obvious political corruption of prosecutorial power. We get it, she probably did something that is a crime by the letter of the law. What’s important—and I think you know this—is whether the decision to go after her so aggressively was the result of her going public about the covid data. For me, the suggestion that that isn’t the case here is comically naive or obtuse.