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Yahoo describes surveillance fight (PRISM - US Gov threatens $250K/day fine)
Washington Post ^
| Sept 11, 2014
| Associated Press
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 Yahoos secret and ultimately unsuccessful court fight against government surveillance emerged when a federal judge ordered the unsealing of some material about Yahoos court challenge.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bigbrother; nsa; prism; yahoo
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Here we go folks, another example of what Snowden was talking about. A quarter million dollars a day fine for not bending over for the spooks. Lovely.
Your tax dollars at work!!
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posted on
09/11/2014 5:05:25 PM PDT
by
dayglored
To: null and void; ShadowAce
Damn, Nully -- Where's my tin-foil hat?!?
Shadowace -- not exactly a tech ping item, your call...
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posted on
09/11/2014 5:08:25 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
To: dayglored
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posted on
09/11/2014 5:08:26 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: dayglored
If they were monitoring potential terrorists it would be one thing. They were monitoring everyone.
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posted on
09/11/2014 5:11:34 PM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: BenLurkin
“Don’t worry about us reading your email and personal communications, Comrade Citizen. There is nothing to fear, as long as you have done nothing wrong. Or illegal. Or that we don’t like. Or...”
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posted on
09/11/2014 5:11:57 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
To: driftdiver
>
If they were monitoring potential terrorists it would be one thing. They were monitoring everyone. Yep. And they won, too:
"...Yahoos secret and ultimately unsuccessful court fight against government surveillance..."
The spooks succeeded -- they made 'em bend over and cough up the users' data.
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posted on
09/11/2014 5:14:43 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
To: driftdiver
The article seems deliberately vague about when what was happening.
Is it because they only have very partial data, or is it because the are being partial with the data.
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posted on
09/11/2014 5:19:27 PM PDT
by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: dayglored
This is nothing like the America I remember.
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posted on
09/11/2014 5:21:05 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them.)
To: dayglored
I don’t know what country I am in now, but America it is not.
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posted on
09/11/2014 5:21:39 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them.)
To: driftdiver
"If they were monitoring potential terrorists it would be one thing. They were monitoring everyone." The government (the ruling class) has become far more concerned about their OWN safety then they are about the safety American people.... The wide open borders are absolute proof of that...!!
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posted on
09/11/2014 5:22:15 PM PDT
by
unread
(Rescind the 17th. Amendment...bring the power BACK to the states...!)
Comment #11 Removed by Moderator
To: dayglored
Way to go Ms. Marissa Mayer! At least you’re trying to put the clamps on the growing tyranny. That’s more than can be said for most of the CEO’s.
$250K/day is some serious coin. Almost nobody can withstand that for long. But thanks for trying. You have my respect.
Once again we’re seeing the women demonstrate more b___s than the majority of men.
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posted on
09/11/2014 5:23:51 PM PDT
by
MichaelCorleone
(Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
To: unread
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posted on
09/11/2014 5:24:01 PM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: dayglored; COUNTrecount; Nowhere Man; FightThePower!; C. Edmund Wright; jacob allen; ...
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Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!
To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don't add you to the list...
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posted on
09/11/2014 6:09:57 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Only God Himself watches you more closely than the US government.)
To: driftdiver
Monitoring political opposition.
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posted on
09/11/2014 6:17:26 PM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Try my coffee! First one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
To: dayglored
I’m shocked yahoo didn’t just bust open everything for the feds
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posted on
09/11/2014 6:26:20 PM PDT
by
Raycpa
To: MichaelCorleone
You can type balls here...I think.
FMCDH(BITS)
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posted on
09/11/2014 6:26:27 PM PDT
by
nothingnew
(Hemmer and MacCullum are the worst on FNC)
To: null and void
It’s also a Faraday home.
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posted on
09/11/2014 6:32:15 PM PDT
by
MaxMax
(Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
To: nothingnew; MichaelCorleone; martin_fierro
>>
Once again were seeing the women demonstrate more b___s than the majority of men. > You can type balls here...I think.
But it's preferable if they're mangled.
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posted on
09/11/2014 6:53:33 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
To: dayglored; 3D-JOY; abner; Abundy; AGreatPer; Albion Wilde; AliVeritas; alisasny; ...
The government should replace its seals with a cartoon depiction of the male homosexual sex act in order to accurately depict what it is doing to Americans.
PING!
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