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No, nothing specifically related to Warrant Canaries but some law podcasts I listened to - ALAB and Mic Dicta for example - have referenced this phenomenon a fe
by smcl 4y ago
No, nothing specifically related to Warrant Canaries but some law podcasts I listened to - ALAB and Mic Dicta for example - have referenced this phenomenon a few times. It's usually a tech bro or sovereign citizen with a novel interpretation of a law that ends up failing when they eventually have to try to argue their case it in court.
- brookst 4y agoJust because some legal strategies are batshit crazy sovcit nonsense doesn’t mean all legal strategies are. See: Apple vs FBI in San Bernardino.
- smcl 4y agoTrue, and it's been elaborated elsewhere that these have already been tested in the supreme court. But you have to admit that without that precedent, it does seem a little bit cheeky - "oh the law says I can't do X, well it doesn't say I can't simply not do inverse(X)" :)
- brookst 4y agoFor a funny / not funny example, see the attempts to ban analogs of illegal drugs. The whole research chemical thing is a result of the need to legislate exactly what’s illegal.
- jeltz 4y agoSure, but warrant canaries sound like sovereign citizen stuff.
- mcbits 4y agoSupreme Court decisions can sound like sovcit stuff when they reference English common law, the Magna Carta, etc. Warrant canaries are just intended to exploit a technicality. There are a lot of technicalities in law that authoritarians don't like.
- tptacek 4y agoIt's true, warrant canaries are not as implausible as sovcit arguments.