alt Hacker News> The following question is "what will they do with the names of the people they pull?".
I'll take a shot at the answer -> Charge them with treason. Because that's the country we live in now, and most of us are just sitting by passively watching it happen.
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Don't be ridiculous. Charging someone can be fraught. They will simply and quietly disappear.
Denaturalize and deport?
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/24/nx-s1-5649729/trump-administr...
Or they'll have ICE take them and they'll be deported or made to disappear. Some might even end up dying.
That's how the US is right now.
If you've got a way for us to not just passively sit by and watch it happen, well, we'd all love to see the plan.
Charging with a crime is so last decade. Nowadays they just shoot people they don't like.
Ironic that the orange man is telling Iranians to risk their lives.
That's always the country we've lived in.
If these people were caught, they'd always have been punished. What they did is extremely illegal. The issue is with the manner of obtaining evidence, not with the crimes being pursued.
There’s a good fraction of people, especially on this forum, who are actively encouraging this. Posts that criticize the administration consistently get flagged off the front page even when they’re related to tech