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New Hampshire Cops Use Taser On Woman Buying Too Many iPhones
turbosaab writes "A woman who said she was asked to leave New Hampshire's Pheasant Lane Mall because she wanted to buy too many iPhones was pinned down by Nashua police and zapped by a Taser (video) as she shrieked in front of crowds of shoppers Tuesday. The Chinese woman from Newton, Mass blamed a language barrier for the confrontation outside the Apple Store in the Pheasant Lane Mall Tuesday afternoon. Police say Li knew exactly what they were telling her and simply refused to comply. Police said Li had $16,000 in cash in her purse at the time of her arrest and may have been purchasing the phones for unauthorized export resale."
No, they mean violating US law by purchasing export-restricted devices within the US for the sole purpose of taking them outside the US to resell. Certain cryptography software is legally blocked from export, and as a result any software that includes those crypto features is also restricted. PuTTY is a great example.
And the reality is that the law is obsolete - cryptography isn't best just because it's built in the US.
You're missing the point. The police tastered this person because she did something perfectly legal, which is to say, buy iPhones. She may or may not have had an intent to later export them, which would be illegal-- but this is no excuse for their actions.
What this proves is that Apple is jacking up the price and availability more on some markets than other.
It proves nothing of the sort. It possibly demonstrates that the US export law is overly broad; it possibly demonstrates that the police have little interest in the rights of people that they're "protecting"-- but it it not related in any way to Apple's price.
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Yes, if she adamantly refuses to leave.
If someone was trespassing on your property and refused to leave, you'd be justified in tasering them too.