Mission creep

[rivkat]

Via stakebait, this post on a security search that turned into a search for "inappropriate" content makes me very, very sad. Mer said it very well:

For anyone who doesn't understand why we're afraid that this kind of search will be destructive of civil liberties: there you go. A textbook case (pardon the pun) of slipping from the mission to interfering in irrelevant -- and constitutionally protected -- behaviors just because they can. In less than a week.