U.S. judge blocks Twitter's bid to reveal government surveillance requests

Post by hf8665 » Sat, Apr 18, 2020, 1:41 PM UTC

Post by m_a_g » Sat, Apr 18, 2020, 1:43 PM UTC

Post by jsjddbbwj » Sat, Apr 18, 2020, 1:45 PM UTC

cryptica wrote: post #5

sneak wrote: post #4

Can we just ponder for a moment that we are being asked to believe that anything Twitter does or does not do could pose an existential threat to the United States? “National security” is a sham now and has been a sham every other time it has ever been used as a blanket override for human rights. Human rights to free expression are more important than any nation. This is just government spies trying to cover their ass…

What's more disturbing and I simply can't get my head around is that Americans feel that they can trust big corporations more than their own government. I don't trust US corporations at all and I thought that there was some kind of corporate conspiracy to discredit the US government to allow corporations to gain more power... Now I'm thinking that the situation in the US is even worse than that; not only are corporat…

Post by Mary-Jane » Sat, Apr 18, 2020, 1:47 PM UTC

pluc wrote: post #7

scarface74 wrote: post #6

Obligatory: And this is a branch of the same government that HN users want to “regulate tech”. Why would anyone want to give government more power?

Because normally a government does smart thing for its people. It hasn't done that in some time in the US.

Post by LatteLazy » Sat, Apr 18, 2020, 1:49 PM UTC

hf8665 wrote: post #11

Does anyone know why judges are so deferential to the US security apparatus? It seems in general like they have a clear bias toward "taking the security system at its word", even when common sense would dictate otherwise in any particular case. It's sincerely puzzling to me why national security entities seem to get treated so differently and I wonder if there's some legal precedent or consideration I'm not aware of.…