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Feds Threaten To Arrest Lavabit Founder For Shutting Down His Service
- dragonwriter 13y agoForget the 4th, how is this not a violation of the 13th Amendment?
- danso 13y agoWhy is this blatant blogspam allowed? The original article is perfectly readable and to the point and isn't filled with self-links to more blogspam. Original article here: http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/08/13/20008036-lavabitcom-owner-i-could-be-arrested-for-resisting-surveillance-order?lite http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/08/13/20008036-...
- Terretta 13y agoTechdirt has been a consistently better aggregator of “anti-establishment” tech news than NBC, and does do original reporting as well. I'd guess the submitter has an RSS feed or bookmark there.
- shill 13y agoWho is John Galt?
- cheald 13y agoI get that a terse Rand quote doesn't really garner much respect, but there's a point here undeserving of the downvotes - the government is effectively saying that Mr. Levison should be forced to remain in business for the sole purpose of serving the government's interests (by threatening to arrest and prosecute him for the action of going out of business) - a circumstance which is depicted as one of rings in the downward spiral of the crumbling dystopia in Atlas Shrugged.
- dragonwriter 13y agoI don't think anyone downvoting the GP failed to get the point of the quote. I think they were downvoting based on the perceived value of reference (whether GPs terse one or your verbose one) to Rand's novel in the discussion.