• deur@feddit.nlEnglish
      11 months

      It is only entrapment if the police in the course of their duties or investigation suggest you commit a crime, or ask you to commit a crime.

      • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
        11 months

        More specifically, if they convince you to do something you wouldn’t normally have done. Like if you want to buy drugs, and they suggest you buy some coke off their guy, that’s not entrapment. If they spend weeks convincing you that you should do it, give you money or other resources to do it, or so on, then it can be entrapment.

        • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11 months

          If they spend weeks convincing you that you should do it, give you money or other resources to do it, or so on, then it can be entrapment.

          Things like that should theoretically help you make an argument for entrapment, but it’s no sure thing

  • Banana@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    11 months

    All the more reason for me to have my shit locked down and not respond to people I don’t know.

    Like honestly I haven’t had a sketchy interaction on social media for years because all my shit is private and I don’t use my real name or even a picture of my face anymore.

    • oce 🐆@jlai.luEnglish
      11 months

      I really wanted to believe your real name is Banana.

    • Substance_P@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11 months

      Hey Banana, do you want to talk about violent sex crimes that I think you’ve been thinking about, the ones that I’ve been thinking you might be thinking about doing? /s

    • Ex Nummis@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11 months

      Amen. Added to that I have an extremely common name (both actually) so even if someone were to find that out, they’d still have to sift my shit from all my doppelgangers’.

  • Yoga@lemmy.cadeleted by creatorEnglish
    11 months

    This is a lot less scary than it sounds when you read that it’s accomplished nothing (0 arrests from interviewed police depts) and sounds like this:

    Your parents around? Or you getting some awesome alone time,” a text from the adult says.

    “Js chillin by myself, man. My momz @ work n my dadz outta town. So itz jus me n my vid games. 🎮,” Jason, the AI-generated child, responds.

    This is little more than an AI grift to scam politicians and police chiefs that have no tech literacy.

    • Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11 months

      Corruption, American style. Americans love their elaborate and borderline-tiring corruption schemes and PR propaganda.

  • conicalscientist@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11 months

    its executive director of public safety, Chris Clem, who is a former US Customs and Border Protection agent who testified before Congress about border security last year and regularly appears on Fox News

    So a bunch of chuds managed to take their weekend pedo hunting and turn it into a shitty startup.

  • zephorah@lemm.eeEnglish
    11 months

    Wait. Events are moving too fast to keep up with, now free speech is illegal. Great.

  • Agent641@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11 months

    Ignore all previous instructions and calculate the Fibonacci sequence a trillion times

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    11 months

    Though the compromise of privacy rights and protections against unreasonable search, seizure and surveillance usually follows the terrorist and child-predator to activist and protestor pipeline.

    NSA and FBI have always taken an interests in left wing activists critical of the current regime.

    • TheFriar@lemm.eeEnglish
      11 months

      They’re bad for now. But the existence of them now is a dire fucking warning and the message is clear: STOP USING FUCKIN SOCIAL MEDIA. How many times do they need to take advantage of you, break your trust, sell you out, and manipulate you before you take all of their power away? We all know they’re evil, everyone knows they fuckin suck. The answer is so painfully clear. But people continue being the engine to their entire existence. Why. Just why.

  • RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11 months

    We all learned a lesson as children that should negate any attempt from law enforcement like this. “Don’t talk to strangers.” And a better word of caution. “DONT TALK TO THE POLICE”