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To: RandFan
Who is right here, Freepers?

Paul is right here, monitoring private domestic communications w/o a warrant is illegal. My bigger problem is that nobody is being prosecuted.

2 posted on 11/18/2022 6:32:48 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: 1Old Pro

Thank you.


5 posted on 11/18/2022 6:35:24 AM PST by RandFan (For some reason I'm interested in politics, particularly the U.S. Senate)
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To: 1Old Pro; RandFan

When you use social media you don’t own any of the content that you publish. If the private company wishes to give all of that material to the government, at their request, they are perfectly within their rights to do so.

The only thing that would be illegal is if the government demands the information under threat, without the willful cooperation of the private company, with no warrant.

That doesn’t seem to be what is happening here. They’re more than happy to harvest specific data about specific users (probably conservatives) and hand it over willingly.


7 posted on 11/18/2022 6:39:54 AM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: 1Old Pro

Trump needs to be asked if he regrets hiring Wray.


8 posted on 11/18/2022 6:39:59 AM PST by NeverCheney
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To: 1Old Pro

Are there any provisions in the Patriot Act for this?

Though it would be nonsense, what powers are allowed under a state of emergency for Covid?


12 posted on 11/18/2022 6:43:35 AM PST by EEGator
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To: 1Old Pro

Wow, Wray was scolded! What next, the proverbial “strongly worded letter”?


39 posted on 11/18/2022 8:09:04 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie (Remember August 8!)
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