Posted on 06/04/2024 3:28:18 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Company questions process that lets officials obtain secret search warrants.
Elon Musk’s X Corp. has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to consider stepping in against a process that lets officials obtain information from social media companies and bars the companies from informing people whose information is handed over.
The process wrongly enables officials to “access and review potentially privileged materials without any opportunity for the user to assert privileges—including constitutional privileges,” lawyers for X said in a filing to the nation’s top court.
Unsealed documents in 2023 showed that X provided data and records from former President Donald Trump’s Twitter account to special counsel Jack Smith after Mr. Smith obtained a search warrant.
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X was blocked from informing President Trump by a nondisclosure order that Mr. Smith also obtained.
The order said disclosing the warrant would result in “destruction of or tampering with evidence, intimidation of potential witnesses, and serious jeopardy to the investigation,” and let President Trump “flee from prosecution.”
X challenged the order, arguing it violated its First Amendment rights and noting that President Trump might have reason to claim executive privilege, or presidential privilege. The company wanted to alert the former president so he could assert the privilege, but U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell ruled against it, claiming during a hearing that the only reason X was issuing the challenge was “because the CEO wants to cozy up with the former president.”
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I guess he assumes America is still a nation of laws.
That's NOT a judicial reason, but rather a political one! And disrespectful to Mr. Musk. This judge should be impeached.
It’s good to see Elon going to bat for Trump!
He’s been doing it for quite awhile.
Probably not (re nation of laws). But given Musk is worth over $200,000,000,000, he has just a little clout. Musk could buy and sell Soros with pocket change. And now he is clearly on our side.
“Speedreader” icon.....never seen it, never heard of it.
A lot of the time. He’s made me wonder occasionally.
I think he’s more supportive lately, which is great.
The globalists are trying to put him in jail.
He is all-in. He is past the point of no-return.
Wow that’s a lot of zeroes. But even if he had a dollar for every mile, that’s still less than 1% the distance to the nearest star. Just saying.
Lol. Yup.
But anyone who doesn’t think Musk has a whole team of top physicists and engineers working on a Alcubierre (warp) drive is not paying attention.
Whoa, angry little monkey aren’t you.
He has said himself that it would take about as much energy as 100 Jupiter masses to even think about warping space-time in that way. An Alcubierre drive, if it is even possible, is far beyond what we can hope to do in our own lifetimes, let alone our distant descendants’.
But hey, that doesn’t make interstellar travel impossible for us. Just very difficult. It won’t be like Star Trek where going from one star to another is like taking flight from one city to another.
You’re projecting again.
Crawl back under your rock loser.
Yup. Very difficult. I’ve studied this stuff extensively. The arguments against the possibility of FTL are just plain wrong. They talk about paradoxes and such. FTL that causes paradoxes is not possible. FTL that does not cause paradoxes is just fine.
Nothing with mass can move at the speed of light. But space itself can and in fact provably does between some galaxies.
You’re right about the energy requirements. Only possible source to get there is antimatter, which is insanely expensive. But it wasn’t that long ago when getting a plane to go 100 feet was a huge accomplishment.
We have one. 99 more Jupiters to go.
Yes, space expands faster than light at about 14 billion light years distance (the universe’s visible horizon). It’s notoriously difficult to predict the future, but I would guess it’s not what we expect.
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