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Dominion Voting Systems Sues Rudy Giuliani

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Re: Dominion Voting Systems Sues Rudy Giuliani

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I sincerely hope that whatever happens with these lawsuits doesn't chill the speech of actual voting machine security research.

I’d be much more worried about the absolutely insane nonsense that Giuliani and his ilk have been spewing. That is far more damaging to voting machine research than this lawsuit.

Re: Dominion Voting Systems Sues Rudy Giuliani

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I sincerely hope that whatever happens with these lawsuits doesn't chill the speech of actual voting machine security research.

I’d be much more worried about the absolutely insane nonsense that Giuliani and his ilk have been spewing. That is far more damaging to voting machine research than this lawsuit.

Wasn’t that the kraken thing that Giuliani wasn’t really involved with?

Re: Dominion Voting Systems Sues Rudy Giuliani

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I sincerely hope that whatever happens with these lawsuits doesn't chill the speech of actual voting machine security research.

It has been fascinating to watch recent events unfold, wherein various horrible things including direct threats to democracy have happened due to people increasingly being able to just completely make up stuff, and spread it around readily and effectively on unfiltered internet mediums, and a great number of people's immediate concern is that free speech may get quelled too much which will do great harm.

This here is another example, nobody did any voting security research, some Trump associates just made up the idea, and were able to easily spread that messages to millions of people, playing a large part in inciting an attempted coup. The maker of that device is now suing for damages, as they should, and your concern is free speech again.

It seems almost performative.

Re: Dominion Voting Systems Sues Rudy Giuliani

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I sincerely hope that whatever happens with these lawsuits doesn't chill the speech of actual voting machine security research.

Anyone actually involved in voting machine security research, and not just a fraudulent troll like Rudy Giuliani, welcomes this lawsuit. His unhinged spouting of unsubstantiated conspiracy theories has only harmed and discredited legitimate voting security research.

Re: Dominion Voting Systems Sues Rudy Giuliani

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I sincerely hope that whatever happens with these lawsuits doesn't chill the speech of actual voting machine security research.

I’d be much more worried about the absolutely insane nonsense that Giuliani and his ilk have been spewing. That is far more damaging to voting machine research than this lawsuit.

As long as potentially hackable voting machines are used in elections, the anxiety about hacking will be there and will eventually be exploited by politicians. If we want to fix the issue, we really just need to move back to hand counting paper ballots.
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