One of the recent local elections i voted in had a list of 3 shit Republicans for sheriff. I chose to vote for none of them. Every other ballot choice i filled out.
Get fucked, it's enshrined in the U.S. constitution against unreasonable searches and seizures through the 4th ammendment. You are not obligated to incriminate yourself in anyway.
Why do you call it a cancer box? I've been through plenty of them and never seen anything to indicate they're unsafe. Then again, we also used to let people x-ray their feet in shoe stores, soo...
You can set default subs to show, and block communities. It's much nicer to look at the news when you want to rather than all the time.