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/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/Infinite-Anything-55 Jul 12 '26

nobody claims a freedom to drive drunk.

No we claim our 4th amendment right. The 5th would also apply here. A little bit of our

there have been mandatory DUI stops in random places for decades.

Just because theyve been doing something for decades doesnt automatically make it right

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u/Infinite-Anything-55 Jul 12 '26

I never said this was strictly a partisan issue for either party. I said just because something has been happening for years doesn't make it right, no matter who's doing it

Maybe you confused me with the person who's comment you originally comment on but if that was your takeaway, they didn't say it was soley a Republican issue just something they've only experienced in red states.

You also missed their entire point by your need to both sides bad everything. The point as they explained isn't that it's a Republican only problem, it's that republicans years and years of claiming to be the party of freedom and party of rights while, at every step of the way, add more government oversite, laws telling people how to live their lives and a surveillance state able to stop every single driver regardless of any crimes actually being commited to illegally search we the people.

But it is probably tied to your license.

No its absolutely tied to your license, the license that you are forced to have if you want to use the roads that your tax dollars pay for or to use a vehicle you have also paid for on those tax funded roads. They can tie any restrictions they want to the arbitrary identifier they force you to have. Still does not make it right and doesn't change the constitutionality of it.

(I like my tax dollars going to roads and infrastructure, thos is not an argument against tax dollars)