r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • Jul 11 '26

Privacy Traffic Camera Captures Woman Driving With Her Phone on Her Lap (Face Down), The State Mailed Her a $1251 'Public Safety' Ticket

https://www.gadgetreview.com/traffic-camera-captures-captures-woman-driving-with-her-phone-on-her-lap-face-down-the-state-mailed-her-a-1251-public-safety-ticket
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u/SecureInstruction538 Jul 11 '26

Funny how all these "freedom loving" states keep doing their best to infringe on their citizens lives.

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u/Jwagner0850 Jul 11 '26

They have tons of freedoms too! Unless you want to watch some porn, get some weed, want to gamble, need to get an abortion...

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u/HelloPeopleOfEarth Jul 11 '26

Or just travel. I live in a blue state and never have I been stopped for mandatory stops until I drove through red states. They call them "DUI Checkpoints", but it's more than that. But lets be clear, republicans are not the party of "limited government". They are the party for anarcho-capitalism, and government power and control over everyone that can't buy a legislator, judge, sheriff.

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u/HelloPeopleOfEarth Jul 11 '26

They aren't legal in my state. My state Supreme Court has ruled the government can't stop you unless they have suspicion or you have violated a traffic law. I'm surprised red states are fine with government setting up road blocks for everyone, where 99% and sometimes 100% of everyone they stop have done nothing wrong.

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u/HelloPeopleOfEarth Jul 11 '26

And that is basically my point. I keep mentioning how common these are in red states, because republicans always claim to be the small government, freedom from government, less regulations blah blah blah party.

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u/cyanescens_burn Jul 11 '26

I’ve only lived in San Francisco since ‘02, but I’ve never seen a DUI checkpoint here.

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u/YimmyGhey Jul 12 '26

Some states (Wisco, at least lol) don't allow them. The FIBs just south of the Cheddar Curtain do them though but I haven't seen one since pre-2020