• SillyGooseQuacked@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    There’s a concept in law enforcement whereby arresting one person dissuades others from doing similar things.

    I wonder if the Trump admin doesn’t want reporters in Minneapolis. /s

    • ameancow@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      Yah but these fuckwads also are powered by the same people who turned our world into an attention-based economy, and the more they create drama somewhere, the more people will rush there for clicks and views and throw themselves in front of widely hated ICE agents to try to get confrontations on camera.

      They’re fascists trying to make a new fourth reich, that’s for sure. But they’re actually really bad at it. These clowns are shooting themselves in the dick every day.

    • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      There’s a concept in law enforcement whereby arresting one person dissuades others from doing similar things.

      It doesn’t even have to be about being arrested. The threat of lawsuit, broadcasting licences not being renewed, or business acquisition of a media company by another not being approved by the government elicits enough fear to corporate journalists. These are done well before using threat of arrest to suppress free press.