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<blockquote data-quote="Dave70968" data-source="post: 3083382" data-attributes="member: 13624">I emphatically support the protections of the Fourth Amendment, but the Fourth isn&#039;t implicated when people *voluntarily* share what they&#039;ve seen, and it *certainly* isn&#039;t implicated in reading what they publicly post to the world. If my garbage isn&#039;t private--and SCOTUS has ruled that it isn&#039;t--why in the world would I expect that something I post to the internet equivalent of a billboard to be private?When somebody does something that would make a reasonable person raise an eyebrow and say &quot;that boy just ain&#039;t quite right,&quot; there&#039;s nothing wrong with sniffing around the edges a little bit. Invasive searching, involuntary questioning, coercing people to act as spies, absolutely wrong; but if his neighbor says &quot;y&#039;know, ol&#039; Timmy seems to be buying an awful lot of fertilizer, and his yard just isn&#039;t that big,&quot; that&#039;s not a violation of Timmy&#039;s rights or his neighbor&#039;s; that&#039;s just good police work.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dave70968, post: 3083382, member: 13624"] I emphatically support the protections of the Fourth Amendment, but the Fourth isn't implicated when people *voluntarily* share what they've seen, and it *certainly* isn't implicated in reading what they publicly post to the world. If my garbage isn't private--and SCOTUS has ruled that it isn't--why in the world would I expect that something I post to the internet equivalent of a billboard to be private? When somebody does something that would make a reasonable person raise an eyebrow and say "that boy just ain't quite right," there's nothing wrong with sniffing around the edges a little bit. Invasive searching, involuntary questioning, coercing people to act as spies, absolutely wrong; but if his neighbor says "y'know, ol' Timmy seems to be buying an awful lot of fertilizer, and his yard just isn't that big," that's not a violation of Timmy's rights or his neighbor's; that's just good police work. [/QUOTE]

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