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This is entirely a "what if", so realize that I'm aware of how absurd this likely is. Given how many NSLs are regularly given out (I believe we're well into te
by existencebox 10y ago
This is entirely a "what if", so realize that I'm aware of how absurd this likely is.
Given how many NSLs are regularly given out (I believe we're well into tens of thousands per year?) I wonder to what extent unified civil disobedience is a viable answer. If thousands, or even hundreds of companies all decided to say "I Have been NSLd, and I refuse to go quietly" would there even BE a useful response the govt could take?
At the point that the govt can make secret rulings approving of secret proceedings dispensing secret legislation, I see few other ways to address a cyclically broken system.
- r00fus 10y agoThey will find someone/group and make an example; like what they did to the CEO of Qwest. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2013/09/30/a-ceo-who-resisted-nsa-spying-is-out-of-prison-and-he-feels-vindicated-by-snowden-leaks/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2013/09/30...
- existencebox 10y agoI didn't know about this instance, and it just convinces me further that there's very little structural change that can be made to dislodge this. What I read in that article is essentially material evidence of subversive tactics to force compliance with an encroaching govt. This is probably another "nothing new", but the phrasing of "might find difficult to get future contracts" reeks so much of the old fashioned "would be a shame if something happened to you" that it strikes a harder tone; and I am even now having trouble reconciling (morally, not logically) how the _object_ of this behavior is the one who endured jail time for it.