3 ms·
What would happen if I hadn't set up the communication strategy voluntarily, but instead was asked the question "Have you received any gag order" by an outsider
by bennofs 11y ago
What would happen if I hadn't set up the communication strategy voluntarily, but instead was asked the question "Have you received any gag order" by an outsider (which I do not know and I didn't ask them to do this or plan it with them)? Can I be forced to lie by law? Or can you just not answer that question in general, even before you've received a gag order, just so that you don't have to answer it differently once you've got a gag order? (If I always said " I can't answer this", my answer wouldn't have to change if I get a gag order).
- austinjp 11y agoThis seems nice. A network of agents could agree to regularly ask each other (or others outside the network) this question. They could even publish the results. Of course, agreeing ahead of time to participate in this network could be interpreted as "communicating" (see other discussions here).
- bennofs 11y agoYou wouldn't even have to agree. I could just start myself going around and asking various companies the question, without the companies themselves knowing about my plan. But perhaps then I am myself acting against the law, because I do this with the intent of circumverting gag orders?