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It would be nice if anyone would state a law being violated. A lot of people seem to be making a lot of assumptions too about what DOGE/Elon are doing vs what t
by jdross 2y ago
It would be nice if anyone would state a law being violated. A lot of people seem to be making a lot of assumptions too about what DOGE/Elon are doing vs what the president or directors of the agencies (for instance) are doing
- _qbxi 2y agoI do agree that citing specific laws is best. However, if the building is on fire, I want the alarm bells on immediately even if it's low specificity. What sort of assumptions have you been seeing?
- pessimizer 2y ago> if the building is on fire If you're already allowing the question to be begged, there's really no need for specificity in the argument. Because if there was no law being broken, that means that the building was not on fire. People tell me that shouting "fire!" is supposed to be bad when there is no fire. I don't think they would accept it as being "low-specificity."
- shigawire 2y agoThere's a bunch of smoke so let's call the fire dept first and let them assess.
- bagels 2y agoHere's some reading after a quick googling. https://time.com/7212753/trump-elon-musk-federal-laws-legal-analysis/ https://time.com/7212753/trump-elon-musk-federal-laws-legal-... Definitely in uncharted territory, but these are some possible laws that have been violated: Impoundment Control Act of 1974, Privacy Act of 1974, the Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA), Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), Internal Revenue Code’s Section 6103.