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I don't think it's "unfair" at all to the government. They're the ones who insist on secret courts and fight any attempt to make information public. Tech comp

by jdp23 13y ago

I don't think it's "unfair" at all to the government. They're the ones who insist on secret courts and fight any attempt to make information public. Tech companies who are actively fighting it deserve a fair amount of sympathy - Twitter, Google, sonic.net, Yahoo for the 2007/2008 case they lost, presumably others. As Marcy pointed out the CCIA (including Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, and others) opposed telco immunity back in 2008: http://www.emptywheel.net/2013/06/09/once-upon-a-time-the-prism-companies-fought-retroactive-immunity/ http://www.emptywheel.net/2013/06/09/once-upon-a-time-the-pr... The telcos and other tech companies who are going along without fighting it tooth and nail do not (in my books) deserve any sympathy.

joe_the_user 13y ago
That is my point, yes. The tech companies are upset and should be upset because the law has destroyed their credibility. But by that token, by that very token, nothing they can say will get that back. It's really a problem because when a law direct people to lie, it produces an effect about as pernicious as anything.