If you're just going to keep moving goalposts and creating straw man arguments then this discussion is going to rapidly deteriorate past the point of usefulness. Let's break a few things down:

> Your response is to advocate that they can't read your Facebook posts. That response is stupid, it is a stupid thing to advocate for

> Over the long term you're going to get nothing if you think calling for a reading-public-information-ban is going to get you anything.

> And when you do that with a policy like "The police can't read public information"

When did I say that? When did I advocate for that? Absolute straw man.

My comment, which began this particular thread of conversation, was:

"Should the police maintain a list of every individual with a public social media account that speaks out against any policy which the police support?"

Read that sentence carefully and please point out where it or any other question/statement I've made supports the argument you claim I've made to ban cops from using OSINT or browsing public posts on social media, or any public information at all. Again, total straw man. You even put it in quotes, implying, intentional or not, that it was a direct quote/paraphrase of my words!

> You should be calling for something more like people to be fired. Based on that stance, I'd assume you're going to get rolled by the police strategically.

You have no clue how small town and police corruption work. The entire town was captured. The district attorney was the mayor's son. The mayor was also the town's bail bondsman. It is a racket from top to bottom, and the whole town is in on it. There is no one within the town to complain to.

The woman who arrested me smokes, manufactures and distributes methamphetamine openly. I personally witnessed her smurfing for Sudafed using an old toothless woman at a grocery store whom she drove to the store in her police unit. Her brother was incidentally murdered by some folks I know over a meth dispute and they found a big meth lab at his home. I have photos of her conversing with and delivering pallets to a trucker. This runs deeper than you could possibly know. The full details of the situation and my trial would astound you.

This was a decade ago. I made tips to the FBI. Tried to involve a few journalists. No one would touch it. And my arresting officer did get fired, after she got drunk and methed out and decided to speed down the highway while shooting her gun in the air from out the window and yeehawing at the top of her lungs. I'm not even joking. And guess what... she was back on the force 3 months later after her timeout.

I also find it extremely alarming that you would in one breath encourage unwarranted police surveillance and targeting, and then say "I'd assume you're going to get rolled by the police strategically". It's like you recognize the issue and yet attempt to justify it. We should not be cheering

> You'd either end up with situations like people actively inciting murder on social media.

In many cases that's already a crime and reason for suspicion, and it has nothing to do with the topic at hand.

If you'd like to actually debate the argument I made, be my guest, otherwise let's end this discussion now before it gets even more out of hand. Because I agree, "The police can't read public information" is an absolutely stupid argument to make, but you're the one who presented it.