Didn't Lavabit shutdown voluntarily?
In self-defense, and the pre-emptive defense of others
How the Government Killed a Secure E-mail Company
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#22" If Lavabit lost its appeal to the F.I.S.C.R., and still refused to coöperate, it would run a serious risk of being found in contempt; that’s how most courts punish those who disobey its orders. The FISA court is no different. According to the court’s rules of procedure, a party may be held in contempt for defying its orders. The secret court may consider many punishments—secret fines for each day of noncompliance,…
Secret courts extraordinary rendition waterboarding indefinite detention in a location beyond the reach of the judicial system shoot to kill via drone spying on the populace on a scale that the stasi could only dream of. Spying on allies as well as enemies What kind of a regime is that?
out of control
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#23How is Mega not all over this?
I feel like this would be Kim Dot Com's favorite thing in the world to do (sticking his finger in America's legal eye). Why haven't they rolled out a privacy focused email service. Their tagline is the "the privacy company."
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#24When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these…
I'd like to add this for why the current political system in the US is fucked up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw2z9lV3W1g
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#25" If Lavabit lost its appeal to the F.I.S.C.R., and still refused to coöperate, it would run a serious risk of being found in contempt; that’s how most courts punish those who disobey its orders. The FISA court is no different. According to the court’s rules of procedure, a party may be held in contempt for defying its orders. The secret court may consider many punishments—secret fines for each day of noncompliance,…
Paging rayiner:
You keep saying FISC "is not a real court" and is some kind of optional decoration on top of powers the executive branch already has.
So, which is it? Does FISC have judicial branch powers? Or do these penalties amount to administrative detention in judicial branch drag?
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#26Completely aside from the main point, but I am curious as to why the New Yorker chose to use umlauts for all of the instances of the word: "coöperate." It's a latin word so I wouldn't expect to see that.
I wonder if it is a rendering trick or something intentional for tracking.
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#27" If Lavabit lost its appeal to the F.I.S.C.R., and still refused to coöperate, it would run a serious risk of being found in contempt; that’s how most courts punish those who disobey its orders. The FISA court is no different. According to the court’s rules of procedure, a party may be held in contempt for defying its orders. The secret court may consider many punishments—secret fines for each day of noncompliance,…
Secret courts extraordinary rendition waterboarding indefinite detention in a location beyond the reach of the judicial system shoot to kill via drone spying on the populace on a scale that the stasi could only dream of. Spying on allies as well as enemies What kind of a regime is that?
USA -> USSR. US govt has decided to follow practices of USSR govt as it considers them to be much more superior than the former USA govt practices.
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#28Completely aside from the main point, but I am curious as to why the New Yorker chose to use umlauts for all of the instances of the word: "coöperate." It's a latin word so I wouldn't expect to see that. I wonder if it is a rendering trick or something intentional for tracking.
> I wonder if it is a rendering trick or something intentional for tracking.
How do you mean?
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#29" If Lavabit lost its appeal to the F.I.S.C.R., and still refused to coöperate, it would run a serious risk of being found in contempt; that’s how most courts punish those who disobey its orders. The FISA court is no different. According to the court’s rules of procedure, a party may be held in contempt for defying its orders. The secret court may consider many punishments—secret fines for each day of noncompliance,…
I don't follow. Are you arguing that the FISA court is a real court, because it shares certain characteristics with other courts?
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#30Completely aside from the main point, but I am curious as to why the New Yorker chose to use umlauts for all of the instances of the word: "coöperate." It's a latin word so I wouldn't expect to see that. I wonder if it is a rendering trick or something intentional for tracking.
That isn't an umlaut: it is a diaeresis.