Posted on 08/01/2020 7:41:25 AM PDT by Libloather
As he posted a collection of images he shot during the protests that gripped Philadelphia after the police killing of George Floyd, Sammy Rivera beseeched his Instagram followers to be careful of what they shared online.
“Photos and video footage of the protests were used to pick out protesters who were then identified and tracked down via their online/social media presence,” he wrote in the caption to his June 26 post that warned just “how easy it could potentially be for others to be tracked down and arrested or worse.”
Five weeks later, Rivera himself was placed in handcuffs, accused in a case built in part on the photos he shared in that post.
The 23-year-old Port Richmond resident was one of six men charged this week with vandalizing two Pennsylvania State Police squad cars May 30, during the first day of unrest that erupted in Center City. Each of them were identified at least in part by postings or associations on their public profiles on platforms like Facebook and Instagram.
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In investigating the destruction of the State Police squad cars, investigators had little to go on at first but a cache of still photos the FBI obtained from a University of Pennsylvania student who documented much of the unrest that erupted May 30, according to search warrant and arrest affidavits obtained by The Inquirer.
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They would like to simultaneously be anonymous while boasting of their illegal exploits. Neat gig if you can get it!
Glad they caught these guys, but a cautionary tale for the rest of us.
And yet these idiots claim they are “peaceful protesters”.
Cool use of the technology. Won’t be cool when it’s used to track people who disagree with the coming marxist government or some contact tracing group with legalized quarantine power. (house arrest)
True enough. Gun owners, not me since that boating accident, should be very wary of this.
Or to enforce a Chinese-style social credit system. The totalitarian governments of yesteryear couldn’t dream of such a subtle and pervasive means of government control. Or non-government control: Why couldn’t the activist corporations of today simply circumvent the government and enforce their political standards on the public through such a system?
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