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The company officers or agents who were served with the letter could be held personally liable for failure to comply with the order. I think it's a little unfa
by jessespears 10y ago
The company officers or agents who were served with the letter could be held personally liable for failure to comply with the order. I think it's a little unfair to expect employees to go to prison for contempt of court in defiance of the order.
- Domenic_S 10y agoHowcome?
- oneubauer 10y agoI think it's unfair to expect that. Anyone who risks their own wellbeing for the greater good is usually applauded, for good reason: it is not expected. Edit: if you'll pardon the expression, it takes serious balls to put your entire way of life on the line. Yes, history sometimes venerates the brave...sometimes posthumously....so it all might seem glamorous. But it's a lot harder than that in real time, when you don't know what will come of it.
- apatters 10y agoThat's why disclosure needs to start at the top and come from someone big enough to survive the fallout. If (for example) Zuckerberg genuinely wanted to do good and grew a pair, he'd do it. He's too busy exploiting your data to get rich and virtue signaling via acquisitions though.
- morgante 10y agoDo you think the government wouldn't throw Zuckerberg in jail?
- apatters 10y agoThey might, but he'd have better odds than your average Joe (and certainly a better legal team). "With great power comes great responsibility" isn't just a line from a movie. Of course we can choose not to hold our leaders to high expectations, but that leads to a markedly worse world for the rest of us.
- argonaut 10y ago> virtue signaling via acquisitions though. This makes no sense.
- benevol 10y ago> Anyone who risks their own wellbeing for the greater good is usually applauded, for good reason: it is not expected. Except for Snowden. America gave him the middle finger.
- brokenmachine 10y agoHe's applauded by many.
- bad_user 10y agoJust as many consider him a traitor.
- 234dd57d2c8db 10y agoI'm not going to jail over my job at twitter.
- moxious 10y agoYes, that could happen. But there's the Spider-Man Rule: "with great power comes great responsibility". They're running a major international media outlet over there, and they do have some pretty heavyweight responsibilities that come with that, even if it conflicts with their personal lives.
- jasonkostempski 10y agoIts unreasonable to expect people to make life changing decisions based on nice sounding but ultimatley meaningless phrases.
- coldtea 10y ago... and from super-hero comic-books at that.
- moxious 10y agoYou're only observing how we're caught in this trap, you're not providing any constructive way out. Sure, it's unreasonable to expect this of people. It's also unreasonable for the government to expect they'll help in spying on their customers. It's also unreasonable for the government to do this in the first place. Everything's unreasonable. Someone has to step...the...fuck...up. And the government has demonstrated it won't be them. Who does that leave? Would it be better to kick back, admire the problem, and simply let things continue as they are?