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Regarding the method ... isn't this illegal? IMO these videos seem fabricated, they're just too convenient.

by moralestapia 4y ago

pipeline_peak 4y ago
No, and if it was, good luck getting him arrested lol
- moralestapia 4y ago
  Quoting HN guidelines: Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.
  - pipeline_peak 4y ago
    Cool
rvz 4y ago
> isn't this illegal? No. This is the same method used to secretly record an interview / meeting of the previous President in 2020 around his atrocious handling of the pandemic on tape which that was subsequently leaked. > IMO these videos seem fabricated, they're just too convenient. So that must mean that the Twitter All hands video that was also referenced by Business Insider and TechCrunch was also fabricated then?
- moralestapia 4y ago
  >This is the same method used to secretly record an interview [...] That doesn't make it legal though ...
  - rvz 4y ago
    Is that why Bob Woodward, and the other leakers of the Trump tapes and Project Veritas (PV) are still not convicted yet or even sued for those leaks without any retractions in their books or videos for everyone to see? If it was illegal Woodward's book would have been successfully banned, taken off of sale and PV would have been taken down along time ago and they still haven't.
    - moralestapia 4y ago
      Not all illegal things get to the court. Not all lawsuits are resolved in favor of the plaintiff. Not all sentences involve jail time. Those could be reasons why "Bob Woodward, and the other leakers of the Trump tapes and Project Veritas (PV) are still not convicted yet".
lapcat 4y ago
> IMO these videos seem fabricated, they're just too convenient. Nah, under the right conditions you can elicit very dumb opinions from almost anybody in the world. If this were a politician it would be called a "gaffe" and the defense would be that the comments were taken out of context.
EricE 4y ago
"isn't this illegal" Only if you live in one of the few states that have strict wiretapping laws. Amazingly if you look at the states that have these "two party" consent laws, they are usually states with a history of lots of corrupt politicians and dirty politics. Funny, that. There was a time when this was a lauded technique of investigative journalists. How sad is it that the practice has been infrequent for so long that the first inclination you have is to think it's illegal?

Regarding the method ... isn't this illegal? IMO these videos seem fabricated, they're just too convenient.

pipeline_peak 4y ago

No, and if it was, good luck getting him arrested lol

moralestapia 4y ago
Quoting HN guidelines: Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.
- pipeline_peak 4y ago
  Cool

rvz 4y ago

> isn't this illegal? No. This is the same method used to secretly record an interview / meeting of the previous President in 2020 around his atrocious handling of the pandemic on tape which that was subsequently leaked. > IMO these videos seem fabricated, they're just too convenient. So that must mean that the Twitter All hands video that was also referenced by Business Insider and TechCrunch was also fabricated then?

moralestapia 4y ago
>This is the same method used to secretly record an interview [...] That doesn't make it legal though ...
- rvz 4y ago
  Is that why Bob Woodward, and the other leakers of the Trump tapes and Project Veritas (PV) are still not convicted yet or even sued for those leaks without any retractions in their books or videos for everyone to see? If it was illegal Woodward's book would have been successfully banned, taken off of sale and PV would have been taken down along time ago and they still haven't.
  - moralestapia 4y ago
    Not all illegal things get to the court. Not all lawsuits are resolved in favor of the plaintiff. Not all sentences involve jail time. Those could be reasons why "Bob Woodward, and the other leakers of the Trump tapes and Project Veritas (PV) are still not convicted yet".

lapcat 4y ago

> IMO these videos seem fabricated, they're just too convenient. Nah, under the right conditions you can elicit very dumb opinions from almost anybody in the world. If this were a politician it would be called a "gaffe" and the defense would be that the comments were taken out of context.

EricE 4y ago

"isn't this illegal" Only if you live in one of the few states that have strict wiretapping laws. Amazingly if you look at the states that have these "two party" consent laws, they are usually states with a history of lots of corrupt politicians and dirty politics. Funny, that. There was a time when this was a lauded technique of investigative journalists. How sad is it that the practice has been infrequent for so long that the first inclination you have is to think it's illegal?