4th Amendment Thread

[de officiis]

Here’s a fun one. The cops are apparently watching facebook for drug-related posts.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-05- ... r-facebook

Gotta catch the low hanging fruit. But apparently, even that cannot be done competently.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Here’s a fun one. The cops are apparently watching facebook for drug-related posts.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-05- ... r-facebook

Gotta catch the low hanging fruit. But apparently, even that cannot be done competently.

Can you get a search warrant from a Facebook post now?

[de officiis]

Here’s a fun one. The cops are apparently watching facebook for drug-related posts.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-05- ... r-facebook

Gotta catch the low hanging fruit. But apparently, even that cannot be done competently.

Can you get a search warrant from a Facebook post now?

You need reasonable suspicion.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Gotta catch the low hanging fruit. But apparently, even that cannot be done competently.

Can you get a search warrant from a Facebook post now?

You need reasonable suspicion.

So... yes.

[de officiis]

Can you get a search warrant from a Facebook post now?

You need reasonable suspicion.

So... yes.

Yup. There’s nothing unique about FB that makes it off limits to Law Enforcement. If the guy had erected a sign in his front yard that announced the fact that he was ingesting an illegal substance, we wouldn’t criticize a passing cop from taking notice. Which is essentially what you’re doing when you post stupid shit on FB.

[DBTrek]

Don’t flex logic on progressives de O, it only confuses and angers them.

[Fife]

You need reasonable suspicion.

So... yes.

Yup. There’s nothing unique about FB that makes it off limits to Law Enforcement. If the guy had erected a sign in his front yard that announced the fact that he was ingesting an illegal substance, we wouldn’t criticize a passing cop from taking notice. Which is essentially what you’re doing when you post stupid shit on FB.

I'm thinking about that yard sign. What if a guy was wearing a shirt out on the sidewalk that says "I <3 SHROOMS," or if he has a bumper sticker on his car motoring down the street with a sticker with a picture of a mushroom and the caption "let's eat some" underneath?

[SuburbanFarmer]

You need reasonable suspicion.

So... yes.

Yup. There’s nothing unique about FB that makes it off limits to Law Enforcement. If the guy had erected a sign in his front yard that announced the fact that he was ingesting an illegal substance, we wouldn’t criticize a passing cop from taking notice. Which is essentially what you’re doing when you post stupid shit on FB.

I would, actually... That's a 1st Amendment issue, is it not?

[Fife]

[SuburbanFarmer]

Should I not have the freedom to wear a pot-leaf t-shirt? How about a pot-leaf sign in my yard? Is that no longer protected?

Is the difference that (in your hypothetical), I explicitly print that "I'm Smoking Pot", rather than using a symbol?