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A bit sad that this is still relevant 12 years later.
Those supposedly outrageous counter examples are much less unheard of though.
Because those are beaches of the 4th amendment, so of course you don’t see that happen very often. That’s the point being made.
The person you’re replying to is saying that those breaches of the 4th amendment are less absurd now than they were at the time the comic was written
The only reason the physical stuff doesn’t happen is because it’s a logistical nightmare to perform it, but no one would bat an eye lash at the ethics of it. Simply, they would if they could 🤷♀️
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