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> I will defy you and in the process cost 10k+ people their jobs without them having any say or knowledge of this There's no way the govt. would do anything mo
by slantedview 10y ago
> I will defy you and in the process cost 10k+ people their jobs without them having any say or knowledge of this
There's no way the govt. would do anything more than skewer (or attempt to) a few sacrificial lambs for violating a gag order. There's no political win otherwise.
- wcummings 10y agohttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/11/yahoo-nsa-lawsuit-documents-fine-user-data-refusal https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/11/yahoo-nsa-laws... "The US government threatened to fine Yahoo $250,000 a day if it refused to hand over user data to the National Security Agency, according to court documents unsealed on Thursday." "The size of the daily fine was set to double every week that Yahoo refused to comply, the documents show." Two years ago
- ddalex 10y agoSuch a fine can be challenged in open court, no? Or is there an order by a secret court preventing Yahoo challenging the fine in a regular court? How do you defend yourself from secret orders issued by secret courts that forbid defending yourself? What is this, mafia or the government ?
- wcummings 10y agoYahoo challenged it in FISA court, not open court. "Yahoo took its case to the foreign intelligence surveillance court, also known as the Fisa court, which oversees requests for surveillance orders in national security investigations. The secretive Fisa court provides the legal authorities that underpin the US government’s controversial surveillance programmes. Yahoo lost its case, and an appeal."