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There are legal means for resisting a search warrant which a company responsible for so much personal information would hopefully pursue based on the merits and
by colechristensen 4y ago
There are legal means for resisting a search warrant which a company responsible for so much personal information would hopefully pursue based on the merits and contents of a search warrant.
Plenty of silicon valley companies resist laws with much larger consequences freely and mostly with impunity.
Some of the same people will be saying uber was a hero for breaking taxi laws around the world (more before it became fashionable to hate uber)
- Jensson 4y agoHow do you know a company resisted a search warrant? Or, how do you know Facebook didn't already do what they could here?
- colechristensen 4y agoI mean, they could just refuse and get held in contempt. It's not like a Nebraska sheriff can hop over to California or wherever Facebook data centers are and start seizing computers until they found this girl's messages (so much of that process would be absurd). Just look to Trump to observe what obstructing a court order looks like. I am not, of course, a corporate lawyer. One would know appropriate procedures to delaying, opposing, or otherwise objecting and appealing an order like this. But it's Facebook. A half a trillion dollar company can resist an overzealous prosecutor going after a single teenager by just ignoring it and ignoring the consequences of ignoring it. It is approximately equivalent to a billionare not paying a parking meter. Sure, they "have to", but nothing of consequence actually happens if they don't.