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What things that are legal today could become illegal in 50 years?
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Dissent
Being queer 🫠
Republicans want to redefine transgenderism as "gender identity fraud". RFK wants to send neurodivergent people to labor camps. You do the math.
Being queer 🫠
Breathing.
Who honestly knows at this point in time?
If right-wing nutjobs keep running the government I am going to say "birth control" and "sodomy" are on the chopping block. Hopefully by 50 years this won't still be the issue but its what they want now. Just to note that the old "sodomy" laws made everything that wasn't PIV illegal. So if you like oral sex that will be illegal now. Sorry everyone no more fun
Private ownership.
Why would you even want this, when you can book it as a service without all the hassles and this highly criminal "privacy". What are you? A drug dealer? A pedophile? Both?
Encryption. For the poors, that is.
It still sounds so insane. Imagine it being illegal for us two to share some public keys. It's like banning fundamental maths
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Cash. Every transaction will be online, so it can be tracked
Living in an "unchristian" way in any form, be it being an atheist, LGBTQ+, etc.
This is what arson is for.
Leaving your house without your papers and government issued ID.
In the Netherlands that's already a thing for anyone aged 14 and up
And it hurts absolutely nobody.
Turns out, the problem isn't carrying ID, the problem is US cops.
Lots of butt hurt Americans downvoting here
I don't usually like SovCits, but like maybe we should really start popularizing SovCit movements. 🤔
I always had some sympathy with them. It just seems like they want off this awful capitalistic treadmill we find ourselves on. Everyone always laughs and belittles them, but I'm always rooting for em just a lil bit
Are they anti-capitalist or anti-government? Maybe some are both, but it seems like many of these types are probably capitalist and don't want the government to get in the way of corporations screwing people.
I doubt they would be able to articulate the difference between ant capitalist vs government. They're just giant whiny man babies.
SovCits are not noble campaigners fighting against injustice. They are idiots deluded enough to think they've found the cheat code to the legal system by spouting the right string of nonsense.
They're desperate and aware there's something wrong with the system they're in, without having the education or experience to realize that the people running it don't actually care about the rules.
If they went and lived in some remote mountain village or something I wouldn't mind.
But they claim all of this while driving without a licence or insurance. Would you be as sympathetic to their cause if they hit your car and cause serious damage?
I sort of understand their point but they've also been unimaginably selfish and entitled and that's the part I can't get behind. Also every single one of them is, without fail, an utter moron.
Don't forget a huge part of the movement is people trying to evade child support
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Civillian use of Drones.
I'm very certain there's gonna be a 9/11-like terrorist attack involving drones and then governments all around the world are gonna get extremely paranoid and just ban it unless you get a special permit that only big corporations can get.
Free expression, freedom of speech. Privacy. Home ownership.
I don't think americans will have to wait 50 years :(
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Dissent against the government.
Already illegal here in the uk to protest climate change.
Liberty and privacy. And it will take way less than 50 years.
Emulators. There's a crack down that continues to happen as old systems become streaming services.
In the US: Not wholly illegal but I predict erosion of the 4th amendment under the guise of keeping the country safe. I predict the definition of a "reasonable" search and seizure will expand.
Across the world: as someone else mentioned, encryption is going to start getting a lot more attention as well.
Unlocking your bootloader
🇪🇺 By October it will be illegal to view porn with an unlocked bootloader
LGBTQ+
I'm not any of it, but I do support it.
Being trans, wait you said 50 years not 0.5? Haha lol we're so fucked
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Driving your own car.
But not in a good way. You’re expected to just die.
Disagree on the last part. They want to erode ownership. Driving will be a subscription of some sort.
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Dumping junk in space
Slaughtering animals for food.
The odds of that happening are pretty damned low.
It'd be great, but super unlikely
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Owning real estate. Similar to being a “qualified investor” today
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