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Phones should be turned off or left at home anyways when protesting. Here are my 10 commandments for engaging in protests:

1: never bring your wallet/ID. If you need to buy things, bring cash

2: either shut off your phone or leave it with your wallet. Recording police violence can be useful, in that case get the aclu app, a burner phone with the app, or an action camera

3: never speak to police under any circumstance

4: you can beat the charge but you can't beat the ride

5: bring water, it's more useful than for just drinking

6: bring hats, sunglasses, etc to avoid being identified by the state if it gets violent

7: wear good running shoes

8: know your rights, both federal and local, and when to use them

9: take out any contact lenses in case police use tear gas

10: stay aware of your surroundings; listen to picket line enforcers/community organizers

This is scary because it could be exploited very easily by bad actors and is a huge invasion of privacy

But lawmakers agreed to the bill late Wednesday as Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti insisted the bill would affect only “dozens of cases a year.”

Precisely why it should not be passed! That's not a good reason at all. It's not worth eroding people's rights if it only affects a few cases in my personal opinion. It shows that the law doesn't need to exist in the first place.

WTF Macron? What happened to “Liberté, égalité, fraternité”? This is some “bullshité” if you ask me.

The UK already fell to the multinational capitalist greed machine. Looks like France is falling, too. Any and all means to squash the protest of citizens of the society that might hurt the gdp output of the beloved economy.

Because everyone seems to have forgotten, an economy is supposed to be a tool to better distribute goods and services for the benefit of society. When a society lives in service to, and is harmed for the benefit of the economy, your society is ass backwards.

France and the UK really have gone to hell in a hand basket. Dystopian bullshit. No wonder they are rioting.

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What could go wrong?

If they are allowed to do these other countries will follow suit. This is a dangerous precedent in which no one is safe regardless of boarders.

I don't imagine we're going to see stories in the near future about how the police abuse these powers :/

What kind of Orwellian shit is the french government pulling?

I've never been so happy to have the ability to root my phone and flash a new OS onto it. This shit is absolutely insane, I'm surprised there isn't more eyes on this from non-profits globally.

This is the same government that says using an ad blocker, vpn, custom rom, linux and or encrypted messaging service puts you at higher suspicion of being a terrorist.

I see them enacting these policies now as the large number of pro labor protests fighting the government all over the country on pensions “reform”.

Damn France and Macron are really leaning into the authoritarianism lately

The leaders of France seem to forget that their citizens used to make people shorter for less.

How do you say "All Cops Are Bastards" in French?

I brought this up at work and somebody said we sold our soul in the us with the Patriot act.

Read the article. Title is clickbait. It's only with approval from a judge. You know, alternatively they could just arrest and imprison the person, which is what every country is doing. Not saying it's without worrying, but there's important nuance that most are missing.

P.S.

Absolute extremist attitudes like "nobody should be able" and so on, have absolutely no place in modern society. There's always nuance. Libertarianism doesn't work, and laws must be enforced. It sucks, but when there are forces that want to hurt people and destabilize societies, you can't go by the rule that everyone is a saint. The world will punish this attitude.

Yes, the world isn't perfect, but for ducks sake, quit sensationalizing anecdotes and representing them as "this always happens". That's dishonest.

literally "literally 1984"

What the FUCK? Is there any uncorrupted government left on the planet?

Not quite done with the last riot and want a new one it seems.

Dystopian fiction was not supposed to be a guide on what to do.

What the fuck, France.

Modern Tech plus AI - authoritarian regimes can't ever be overthrown.

This is why we need to strip the US gov. of power, before shit like this starts happening (which ik, it kinda already is.)

It bugs me that people will bitch about privacy all day but won't do anything about it. Most people just go

Yeah but you guys still have the guillotines in storage or something though, right? Might be time to dust them off.