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EFF: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/08/j20-investigation-doj-overreaches-again-and-gets-taken-court-again https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/08/j20-investig
by mikegerwitz 9y ago
EFF: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/08/j20-investigation-doj-overreaches-again-and-gets-taken-court-again https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/08/j20-investigation-doj-...
Good on DreamHost. But another dangerous consequence is that this creates a chilling effect. If I didn't know how to protect my privacy/anonymity online, this would definitely worry me. Freedom of association is a fundamental, constitutional right in the United States.[0]
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/05/when-surveillance-chills-speech-new-studies-show-our-rights-free-association https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/05/when-surveillance-chil...
[0] Trivia: actually, not explicitly, but the Supreme Court upheld it as protected under the First Amendment in NAACP v. Alabama in 1958.