“‘At first I thought it was just another series of spam messages like I get all the time from home improvement, car insurance , business loans, etc. Then I saw the rap sheet and license plate numbers and was like WTAF,’ the person said in an online chat."

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    This administration and team seem to be on 🔥for group chat fuck-ups

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    I find it super weird that we continue to use platforms like WhatsApp for stuff like this. It’s failed multiple times, and other systems exist that would prevent screw ups like adding random people to stuff. It should be a closed system, especially since it’s the dam government! You would think they take security seriously.

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        Kristallnacht has already happened then. Americans are going to be the German public and just keep quiet then?

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          America is big, it will take a while. And quiet seems like an overstatement considering the no kings protest was the largest in the nations history. LA has an aggressive 24/7 protest by one of the ICE facilities. Volunteers in different cities are disrupting ICE activities and following agents to gather their personal information.

          Most of the deployments are to blue areas right now, and 2/3 of the country watch Fox news exclusively or no news. So it will take a while for even more people to wake up.

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      In Australia that would contravene the archives act - I hope (IANAL).
      Is there something similar in the US? I imagine enforcing it would be another matter.

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      Seriously, I’ve never worked anywhere dealing with anything so sensitive as “the government raiding homes” and yet still several of them would have rightly chewed me out if I was using whatsapp for business

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      Even if they were smart enough to know it was a bad idea, and knew enough about rules and regulations to know it wasn’t allowed, they’d still use it anyway because they’re willfully idiotic and incompetent.