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Very interesting, more like a theoretical law question. As the judge cited first amendment rights, to my knowledge, broadly speaking that only applies to Americ
by ricardobayes 3y ago
Very interesting, more like a theoretical law question. As the judge cited first amendment rights, to my knowledge, broadly speaking that only applies to American citizens. I wonder if the judge was actually made aware of the identity of the commenters in question or at least their citizenship?
- dwallin 3y agoMany rights apply broadly and not just to citizens. The following article covers some of the nuance: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/politics/what-constitutional-rights-do-undocumented-immigrants-have https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/politics/what-constitutiona...
- ricardobayes 3y agoYou are perfectly right and thanks for the link. Rephrasing my question - which shouldn't have been about citizenship at all, rather I wonder what makes it relevant that the constitutional rights are being invoked here. As Reddit is an open site, users come from all over the world. Is that so the alleged crime has been committed on US "soil", aka Reddit as an American site or at least the server is hosted in the US? I don't even want to bring CDN's into this, haha.
- toast0 3y agoIf the case is being heard in a US courtroom, the US constitution generally applies. There's some gray area re:'enemy combatants', but that's not relevant for a copyright case.
- InCityDreams 3y ago>There's some gray area re:'enemy combatants', Orange, not grey.
- voxic11 3y agoBecause this is a US court deciding if it has the power under the constitution to compel reddit to expose these commentators.