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I'll wait to see the actual motion, but it seems reasonable that they would want the names of staff redacted to prevent them from getting death threats from peo

• scottshea 13y ago
  From the article: "But it’s worth noting that names of third parties are already redacted from documents produced under FOIA." So it would appear that the names are already redacted
• Amadou 13y ago
  There is no evidence of death threats in that link. Equating them to the leaders of the hitler youth may be an extreme interpretation but is not threatening. My understanding is that the two prosecutors in the Aaron Schwartz case have reported receiving threats -- One email gloating at doxing him, one postcard of a guillotine and one of them had their facebook account hacked. I've always assumed that people in high profile jobs like that receive threats on a regular basis, and that given the unpredictability of 4chan / anonymous that the number and types of threats were unexpectedly tame. http://www.businessinsider.com/aaron-swartz-prosecutors-threats-hacking-2013-4 http://www.businessinsider.com/aaron-swartz-prosecutors-thre...
• wavesounds 13y ago
  I'm in no way condoning violence, threats or harassment of any kind. But the faceless bureaucracy is the problem. If people can make stupid decisions then not take responsibility because someone somewhere on the internet said something dumb then these problems will never get fixed.