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> vindictive government raiding What? OP literally just described how skipping a request for info is comparable to skipping a court summons in the US. If you s
by soared 8y ago
> vindictive government raiding
What? OP literally just described how skipping a request for info is comparable to skipping a court summons in the US. If you skip a court summons 4 times, the government comes after you. How is this situation different?
> publishing
This certainly does raise questions.
> government's ideals
Investigating companies who might be implicit in crimes? (Gov is investigatng fake news, most of which is shared via facebook. Fb /probably/ didn't commit any crime, but they are closely involved and failing to cooperate raises red flags. Fake news isn't a crime, but there were questions of brexit advertising funds, election funds, etc.
- tzs 8y ago> If you skip a court summons 4 times, the government comes after you. How is this situation different? They didn't come after Facebook to obtain the documents. They went after someone who was suing Facebook and who was visiting England, and threatened him with jail unless he stole Facebook documents for them (which he had restricted access to as part of the discovery processes of his lawsuit against Facebook).
- steve_gh 8y agoThey are making a point. If Zuck had given evidence it would be in the public domain. He didn't, they have gained access to the documents, and are putting the bits they believe relevant to their inquiry into the public domain.
- kodablah 8y agoWhy leave off the part of the quote that said "and publishing"? I assume an accident, buf if you include that in the quote, you will understand how the situation is different. The concern about ideals is how they chose the target and what they are doing with the documents. So many people naively get caught up in the overarching issue of guilt that they are eager to overlook improprieties by the investigators.
- soared 8y agoGood point, I edited my comment.