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extremely paranoid thinking re: mass surveillance and state violence against queer people
if SCOTUS overturns Lawrence v Texas, I wish every non-encrypted messaging service out there which stores message history indefinitely a very catastrophic data loss, because the alternative is the state using people's intimate conversations to hunt them down for actions that have become retroactively illegal again
re: extremely paranoid thinking re: mass surveillance and state violence against queer people
@hikari At least, the US Constitution prohibits passing laws which apply retroactively (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_One_of_the_United_States_Constitution#Section_9:_Limits_on_Federal_power), but obviously yes surveillance would be used on any new instances of such "criminal acts"
re: extremely paranoid thinking re: mass surveillance and state violence against queer people
@aismallard the problem is that this doesn't prevent court decisions from having retroactive effect, and various southern US states still have anti-sodomy laws on the books