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If you can be compelled to be silent while breaking constitutional guidelines on the basis of national security, you can be compelled to update a beacon. Warra
by soulofmischief 7y ago
If you can be compelled to be silent while breaking constitutional guidelines on the basis of national security, you can be compelled to update a beacon.
Warrant canaries are nice to have, but viewing them as something which provides proof of absence of government meddling is incorrect.
- nradov 7y agoPerhaps, but that legal theory has never been tested in US federal court (as far as we know). It's entirely possible that the judicial branch wouldn't allow the executive branch to force private citizens into actively making false statements.
- soulofmischief 7y agoRight. My whole point is that there are unknowns in the equation which render the proposition void.