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> The IRS being accused of being criminal all the time What?? I read the news a lot and don’t see this. I doubt login.me has any connection to Montenegro exc

by gumby 3y ago

> The IRS being accused of being criminal all the time What?? I read the news a lot and don’t see this. I doubt login.me has any connection to Montenegro except for which registrars manage the domain name itself. This is not a defense of their choice of vendor.

macinjosh 3y ago
Just one example: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/irs-committed-alarming-civil-liberties-abuses-with-unannounced-field-visits-congressional-report-finds/ar-AA1j6VrJ https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/irs-committed-alarming-civ...
- gumby 3y ago
  Ah yes, the “subcommittee on weaponizing government”, a credible, neutral group. I do believe this was an issue (in fact suborned by FBI practices) in the 1960s against civil rights targets, but I haven’t seen any credible accusations since the Nixon era.
  - lupire 3y ago
    I can forgive you for not reading the article on the MSN spam site. Here's the original: https://www.nationalreview.com/news/irs-committed-alarming-civil-liberties-abuses-with-unannounced-field-visits-congressional-report-finds/ https://www.nationalreview.com/news/irs-committed-alarming-c... It's literally an investigation into the government weopanizing the IRS. The IRS published documents you can view yourself to see their misdeeds. The IRS has since apologized and updated policy to curtail (but not eliminate) the authoritarian behavior. You don't give yourself credibility by making up names.
    - gumby 3y ago
      > You don't give yourself credibility by making up names. "Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government", according to the article at your link, is literally the source. I made no name up.
gosub100 3y ago
My guess is they are incorporated there as a preemptive move against an "Experian hack" level event. Then all you have to sue is an offshore PO box.
- Terr_ 3y ago
  > My guess is they are incorporated there I don't think the correlation between domain-choice and legal-incorporation is strong enough to support that guess, much like how bit.ly probably isn't incorporated in Libya. AFAICT ID.me is incorporated in the US state of Delaware, a popular choice due to its local laws.

by gumby 3y ago

macinjosh 3y ago

Just one example: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/irs-committed-alarming-civil-liberties-abuses-with-unannounced-field-visits-congressional-report-finds/ar-AA1j6VrJ https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/irs-committed-alarming-civ...

gumby 3y ago
Ah yes, the “subcommittee on weaponizing government”, a credible, neutral group. I do believe this was an issue (in fact suborned by FBI practices) in the 1960s against civil rights targets, but I haven’t seen any credible accusations since the Nixon era.
- lupire 3y ago
  I can forgive you for not reading the article on the MSN spam site. Here's the original: https://www.nationalreview.com/news/irs-committed-alarming-civil-liberties-abuses-with-unannounced-field-visits-congressional-report-finds/ https://www.nationalreview.com/news/irs-committed-alarming-c... It's literally an investigation into the government weopanizing the IRS. The IRS published documents you can view yourself to see their misdeeds. The IRS has since apologized and updated policy to curtail (but not eliminate) the authoritarian behavior. You don't give yourself credibility by making up names.
  - gumby 3y ago
    > You don't give yourself credibility by making up names. "Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government", according to the article at your link, is literally the source. I made no name up.

gosub100 3y ago

My guess is they are incorporated there as a preemptive move against an "Experian hack" level event. Then all you have to sue is an offshore PO box.

Terr_ 3y ago
> My guess is they are incorporated there I don't think the correlation between domain-choice and legal-incorporation is strong enough to support that guess, much like how bit.ly probably isn't incorporated in Libya. AFAICT ID.me is incorporated in the US state of Delaware, a popular choice due to its local laws.