Re:Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data
by mikepurvis on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @12:50PM
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Interesting perspective. I think the majority of the rest of the world is in awe that those two specific restrictions (such as they are today) are so inadequate at protecting anybody (from the rich and crazy people with guns, respectively).
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Re:Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data
by nickff on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @10:36PM
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The Bill of Rights was never intended to protect citizens from each other, the intent was very clearly to protect citizens and states against the federal government. Even with this limited scope, political pressures have overcome those two amendments (and most of the others). The parent is very right to point out that it is hard to restrain the majority, even with the constitution (and/or law) on your side.