alt Hacker NewsI'm not taking sides here, but it seems that the government may have some legitimate reasons for this restriction. The anti-ICE protesters have been well organized, well equipped, and sometimes violent. I have no knowledge of them using drones up to this point, but they certainly could have used them for the purposes of collecting intelligence on their targets (who are federal law enforcement agents). The intelligence they collect could be used for the purposes of planning attacks, assaults, or interference.
Obviously, media organizations should have a right to use drones for filming ICE operations for the purposes of reporting, and restricting them is likely a First Amendment violation.
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First amendment applies to citizens, not just “media organizations”. Serious contradiction between your major advocacy about protecting ICE and your minor hedge to avoid getting ghosted.
Everyone gets the first amendment
> The anti-ICE protesters have been well organized, well equipped,
Civilians being well organized and well equipped (?) is a problem why?
> and sometimes violent
And yet the videos coming out of the US, of protesters being shot by ICE where non violent.
> for the purposes of collecting intelligence on their targets (who are federal law enforcement agents).
What does "target" mean exactly, I haven't read anything other than doxxing agents, annoying, and verbally harrasing them?
Also, I'd be more wary about the state if things when there's plethora news circulating of US law enforcement buying up all kinds of data for flagging undesirable citizens. More so when Palantir is involved and the developed tech is any authoritarians wet dream.
Nobody is going to give you an award for licking the boot dude.
It's true, I heard that in recent news protesters have gone from assaulting ICE officers with the smaller 6-inch subs to using entire footlongs.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/man-who-threw-sandwich-a...