New York gun bill requires purchasers to surrender social media profile

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New York gun bill requires purchasers to surrender social media profile passwords.

These background checks, according to WKBW, would require submissions that could go back in a person’s Internet history up to three years

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/nov/22/new-york-gun-bill-requires-purchasers-surrender-so/

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We believe in your Second Amendment rights. But unless you waive your First and Fourth Amendment rights, we will not “grant” you your Second Amendment rights. See what we did there, tee hee? Once we’ve investigated everything you ever said to anyone, and your random thoughts, and checked your underwear drawer, well, we will probably “have to” deny you your Second Amendment rights, too.

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Thought Police much?

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Oh come on, only the guilty need worry. They just have public safety in mind and want to keep guns out of the hands of the truly dangerous people. No WAY could this kind of law be used against us! :rolleyes:

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Kind of like the social score Beijing is going to start giving sits subjects to see if they get to receive services like an ambulance, water or electricity? But only if they’re loyal, supportive Communists?

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How would they even know if you gave up all of them? Shit, I’ve been the member of dozens of forums and I don’t even remember them all, much less my passwords.

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And if you have no social media accounts?

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Oh… I’m sure they’ll include forums like this :wink:

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Well then that would make all of the liberals that read it cry… :jester:

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Because when they find some old forum that you don’t remember joining, or some odd profile made on some site when you signed up for a coupon, they can deny you and charge you with submitting false information.

It is just a lazy man’s doxxing. Because you can be sure as hell that the database will be leaked.

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Not that this entire notion isn’t totally outrageous and invasive, but couldn’t you theoretically just get around this by not using your real name on any social media profiles (which I already do now) and lying and telling them you don’t have a computer or use the internet?
That’s obviously really implausible that one would not be an internet user in this day and age but I’d think the burden of actually proving that you are lying would fall on the State.

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In case I ever get sentenced to NY: “Hey Cuomo! Kiss my PROFILE!” :jester:

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Al they have to do is get the device(s) that you have used.

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Except most people do not have ghost profiles.

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Easy I just give them a bunch of porno sites and I should be good to go.

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That would be funny…lol

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This is one of those news items that make you check the date to make sure it isn’t April 1st…

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Until someone sues - I am pretty sure the courts would call this an unreasonable search. All the more reasons we need to stack the justices while we can.

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The 4th Amendment has been shit on for decades:

*Random DUI (started as those)/license/registration checkpoints. Upheld by SCOTUS.

*Things found in a search warrant that weren’t listed on the warrant as items being searched for (read the 4th Amendment and see that "…and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." Found to be good-to-go because the officer found it in “good faith”.

  • The immense intelligence apparatus of the most powerful nation on Earth was used to spy on political opponents, with the subsequent “investigation” based off of blatant falsehoods (the Steele dossier).

Sorry, the 4th Amendment is becoming a thing of the past. It is downright criminal as well as pathetic.