Oh, that would be the common sense, right? My point is exactly the fact that you don’t need to be doing anything illegal in order to be charged. If you’re building a dirty bomb, that’s illegal. Shredding blueprints is obstruction of justice, an additional charge, that’s common sense. But shredding blueprints for a garden shed isn’t illegal, because building a garden shed isn’t illegal. Just the same, deleting cookies - or wiping your phone clean - shouldn’t be illegal, unless it’s concealing a crime. Protesting against police brutality is not a crime, organising is not a crime, there is no evidence he did commit any crimes. He’s being charged because he prevented a baseless, illegal search. And if preventing an illegal search is a crime, then all searches are legal and privacy is dead.

So technically, if I as much as delete cookies because I don’t want anyone, including the government, to track me, I’m breaking the law in the US and could be charged and imprisoned for up to 5 years? Land of the free 🤣

Country with high tuberculosis prevalence. It’s explained in the first sentence of the article.