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>The government can do whatever it wants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_law

>In China these people would be in labor camps for anti-social exploitation.

China also sends Uyghurs and other political prisoners for similarly spurious charges.





> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_law

You may have been able to make that argument in the past, but since ~January, the US is a country of Rule by Law.


Obviously there are limits. Still, the principle stands. The notion that there's some clever loophole which allows you to exploit people only holds if people want to be exploited and cleverness in doing so should be rewarded.

Obviously, it should not.




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