I am highly amused by friends of mine of a libertarian bent getting, well, bent out of shape over this and demanding that people 'vote with their feet' and stop using these services.
This amuses me, as there's a much simpler way of dealing with things like this and it's LEGAL REGULATION OF GOVERNMENT POWERS.
They also tend to complain that this is against the constitution, which amuses me, because for all the nice stuff in the US constitution this is exactly the sort of thing, like with gun control, where it's really quite inadequate.
If 'Stop and Frisk' is legal under the 4th amendment, I'm struggling to see how this is much different.
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This amuses me, as there's a much simpler way of dealing with things like this and it's LEGAL REGULATION OF GOVERNMENT POWERS.
They also tend to complain that this is against the constitution, which amuses me, because for all the nice stuff in the US constitution this is exactly the sort of thing, like with gun control, where it's really quite inadequate.
If 'Stop and Frisk' is legal under the 4th amendment, I'm struggling to see how this is much different.