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No matter how nasty the reason was for the FOIA request - why should an organization who historically has defended free speech in most if not all circumstances
by Der_Einzige 5y ago
No matter how nasty the reason was for the FOIA request - why should an organization who historically has defended free speech in most if not all circumstances going to such lengths to defeat it? What happened to defending the Westboro Baptist Church and skinheads re: freedom of speech?
- fzeroracer 5y agoLet's say there was a hypothetical corporation looking to identify employee participation in a protest. Would you defend that corporation making an FOIA request to identify who might've participated? Who's freedom of speech do you think deserves to be defended, the corporation or the individuals in question? Now apply that logic to this scenario, where the group in question is looking to identify individuals in order to make a scapegoat out of them for their own private decisions. Who's freedom deserves defending?
- themaninthedark 5y agoFrom a post above: >IIRC, FOIA does not grant you a right to personal information collected on citizens. The agencies have the right to redact that in whole or in part from the records sought.