> ...is essentially thoughtcrime > The police state has done an orwellian job... > Then, any attempt to not tell the government is "money laundering".

Exactly.

But the really most shocking is the number of people that'll find excuses for such a dystopian system.

Now of course very few bite the hand that feeds them: when you literally work on software facilitating the handling of SARs, you need to do post-fact rationalization of your acts and life choices.

I hope the new administration burns that profoundly nightmarish system to the ground.