Posted on 09/11/2014 5:05:25 PM PDT by dayglored
WASHINGTON — Yahoo said Thursday the government threatened to fine the company $250,000 a day if it did not comply with demands to go along with an expansion of U.S. surveillance by surrendering online information, a step the company regarded as unconstitutional.
The outlines of Yahoo’s secret and ultimately unsuccessful court fight against government surveillance emerged when a federal judge ordered the unsealing of some material about Yahoo’s court challenge.
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but is that enough aluminum???
Perhaps.
Yahoo execs could have stopped this by simply going public. obama could not arrest or fine anyone as he was breaking the law.
Problem is, the spooks were not breaking the law -- the government made the laws to allow this. Oh, you think you have to have open public laws? You silly person. These were classified laws. You're not allowed to talk about the fact that you're bound by them, either.
The Yahoo execs would have found themselves in a world of hurt. Why do you think they had to eventually fold and submit to it? Certainly not because they wanted to. It's because their lawyers studied the options and decided that the Feds held all the cards.
4th amendment doesn’t mean much to an Indonesian.
Yet, Yahoo made nary a peep at the time.
Had this threat been exposed publicly, my bet is the outrage would have caused the government to back off.
Public would have been outraged. The democrats would have had to back off.
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