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Missouri Governor Vows to Prosecute St. Louis Post-Dispatch for Reporting

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Re: Missouri Governor Vows to Prosecute St. Louis Post-Dispatch for Reporting

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Post by mmcdermott »

_3u10 wrote: post #29
WarOnPrivacy wrote: post #4

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson (R) .. vowed his administration would seek to prosecute and investigate .. anyone who aided the publication in its "attempt to embarrass the state and sell headlines for their news outlet." Embarrassing governments is the natural outcome of the press doing it's job. This is what the extra constitutional protections are for.

There’s no extra constitutional protections. It’s all under free speech. Everyone is equal.

x1000 this.

The freedom of the press is a right granted to all citizenry of the United States, not a specialized permission granted to an elite caste.

Re: Missouri Governor Vows to Prosecute St. Louis Post-Dispatch for Reporting

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Post by nostrademons »

Bluecobra wrote: post #14
snicker7 wrote: post #6

Apparently, the SSNs were all embedded directly in the HTML file. Like … what?

When I was a student at DeVry University (a national for-profit college with 40 campuses) your SSN was your student ID. This wasn’t corrected until 2002 or 2003. :(

Your SSN was your driver's license number in 29 states until 2004, when Bush outlawed the practice.

Many, many institutions in the USA are built on it being a high-trust society. Now that it's falling into a low-trust state, we can expect those institutions to fail, and perhaps the state to as well.

Re: Missouri Governor Vows to Prosecute St. Louis Post-Dispatch for Reporting

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Post by dylan604 »

tombert wrote: post #21
hangonhn wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

hugs My home state is Florida. It will be alright.

As a fellow Florida-raised human, I feel your pain.

Being from Texas, I feel like Texas and Florida are in a race to wherever it is they think they are going. I feel like there needs to be a state level rivalry like colleges. Brings a new meaning to Texas State vs Florida State. Maybe they can have halftime shows too. I also think state laws should be copyrightable so that when other states copy their asinine laws, the originating state gets royalties.

Re: Missouri Governor Vows to Prosecute St. Louis Post-Dispatch for Reporting

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Post by newsbinator »

diegorbaquero wrote: post #7

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson (R) said fixing the flaw could cost the state $50 million Talk about waste of resources.

I mean it wouldn’t be a weekend fix because it’ll have to involve an audit of all existing systems to identify where else similar tomfoolery occurred.

But 50 million is a high estimate.

Re: Missouri Governor Vows to Prosecute St. Louis Post-Dispatch for Reporting

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Post by jrs235 »

WarOnPrivacy wrote: post #4

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson (R) .. vowed his administration would seek to prosecute and investigate .. anyone who aided the publication in its "attempt to embarrass the state and sell headlines for their news outlet." Embarrassing governments is the natural outcome of the press doing it's job. This is what the extra constitutional protections are for.

This is why my outlook on the future is growing dim. Politicians are threatening revenge, using the power and purse of the state, against people who embarrass them.

Re: Missouri Governor Vows to Prosecute St. Louis Post-Dispatch for Reporting

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Post by tombert »

dylan604 wrote: post #33
tombert wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a fellow Florida-raised human, I feel your pain.

Being from Texas, I feel like Texas and Florida are in a race to wherever it is they think they are going. I feel like there needs to be a state level rivalry like colleges. Brings a new meaning to Texas State vs Florida State. Maybe they can have halftime shows too. I also think state laws should be copyrightable so that when other states copy their asinine laws, the originating state gets royalties.

Just to make sure that I got both experiences, I also lived in Texas for three years after leaving Florida.

Re: Missouri Governor Vows to Prosecute St. Louis Post-Dispatch for Reporting

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Post by vipa123 »

jrs235 wrote: post #37
WarOnPrivacy wrote: post #4

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson (R) .. vowed his administration would seek to prosecute and investigate .. anyone who aided the publication in its "attempt to embarrass the state and sell headlines for their news outlet." Embarrassing governments is the natural outcome of the press doing it's job. This is what the extra constitutional protections are for.

This is why my outlook on the future is growing dim. Politicians are threatening revenge, using the power and purse of the state, against people who embarrass them.

This is as old as the country itself, the constitution is stronger than these thugs.
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