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It's troubling that a city district attorney can compel the disclosure of non-public information without a search warrant. It's equally troubling that this lax
by panarky 14y ago
It's troubling that a city district attorney can compel the disclosure of non-public information without a search warrant.
It's equally troubling that this lax standard is applied so routinely in the most trivial of cases.
If we accept that participating in non-violent protest on the street instead of the sidewalk now justifies heavy-handed police action, we have bigger problems than loss of privacy.
- sneak 14y agoThe rule of law in the USA is gone. The feds issue 60k+ NSLs annually, and you never hear about those. Because there's no oversight whatsoever, we have no idea how many of these are issued against people exercising their legal rights in the ways that the police state simply doesn't find convenient or appropriate. It's time to leave.
- chc 14y agoThere was no national security letter involved here, and as far as I can tell all parties did follow the law. As far as I can tell, it's actually Twitter's terms of service that caused the trouble here, as they deny you ownership of your own content and thus prevented Harris from defending the rights he gave up by tweeting. At any rate, this talk of national security letters sidestepping the law and all that seems quite beside the point. This was just an unfortunate interaction of valid laws and onerous terms of service.
- sneak 14y agoMy point was not that this was an NSL, but it's this bad even in the cases where we're _hearing about it_. Fact is, this is happening constantly, and in ways we can't even find out about to know how bad it truly is. There's no hope. Run.