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Supreme Court rejects appeal by Elon Musk's X on disclosing federal surveillance
- atticora 3y agoThanks for trying, X. ... argued that the federal government’s prohibition on the company disclosing the exact number of receipts of national security-related requests for surveillance of users was unconstitutional, and should be granted only in exceptional cases It seems wrong to prevent reporting not just of the particulars of the surveillance but on the scale of it as well. It hides important perspective from the voters more than it protects national security. Or perhaps it's an attempt to protect the security apparatus from the voters.
- zeroCalories 3y agoWill Musk release all of his dirty laundry dealing with our enemies?
- JohnnyHerz 3y agoHey Friend. This topic is not about Musk. Start a new thread if you want to go down that rabbit hole. This is about our government and it's abuse of power.
- zeroCalories 3y agoYes it is, it's about Musk's attempt to undermine our country by playing interference for our enemies.
- fsflover 3y agoFighting corruption of the government doesn't undermine the country. Hiding it does.
- zeroCalories 3y agoThere is nothing corrupt about lawfully obtaining information on people. Musk framing this as corruption is an attempt to flame conspiracy theories. If not, I hope he will release all of his dealings with all international organizations.
- fsflover 3y agoThere is nothing lawful about mass surveillance of Americans by the government. It's explicitly against the Constitution.
- zeroCalories 3y agoMusk should just leak the requests if he thinks it's so indefensible. But he won't, because he has nothing. Just secrets that he's legally obligated to keep. Looking forward to Musk leaking the communication with Russia and China, because clearly his goal is to fight authoritarianism, not undermine the U.S.
- fsflover 3y agoSnowden did leak and now is in grave danger. You underestimate how much the corrupt government can harm Musk.
- zeroCalories 3y agoSnowden released thousands of documents to propagandists like Glen Greenwald, that went on to publish information outside the scope of what could be protested under the constitution. He is a traitor, and deserves everything he got.
- fsflover 3y agoWhat would you do?
- JohnnyHerz 3y agoAnd the argument that disclosing the "number of requests made" should be a state secret is...? Oh right, it would expose the plenitude of the misbehavior by our government.
- atticora 3y agoclassified
- JohnnyHerz 3y agoLULZ
- thetopher 3y agoI wonder what would happen if they published a list of all their users who are not currently under surveillance, or gave them a nice little icon. I feel like somebody tried this before, but my Google searches are coming up empty.
- entropicgravity 3y agoYes, the canary in the coal mine technique. As far as I know it's not illegal, but you only get a count of '1'.