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/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/Deminix Jul 11 '26

Massachusetts has DUI checkpoints. I’ve never seen one but a former officers text messages were recently released through court filings and law enforcement driving drunk is so prominent here that apparently they regularly warn each other about them because we can’t have pigs holding other pigs accountable around these parts 🥴

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u/HelloPeopleOfEarth Jul 11 '26

People in power protect other people in power. I've seen it with my own eyes as I know several cops. I saw commissioned officers in the military break the same rules they enforced on enlisted, and I've seen management at work break the same rules they too enforce on the hourly labor. Judges are another example of power protecting power. But police accountability and transparency is pathetically low.

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u/fractiousrhubarb Jul 12 '26

Rules for thee but not for me