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Re:Twitter discloses national security letters by wfunction on Friday January 27, 2017 @08:18PM (#13504199)
But are there no laws that require you to abide by these kinds of orders and challenge them differently? Couldn't you be later convicted of not abiding by those laws independently of whether the orders were themselves legal/constitutional?
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Re:Twitter discloses national security letters by paulddraper on Friday January 27, 2017 @09:41PM (#13504534)
An unconstitutional act is void.
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Re:Twitter discloses national security letters by rhizome on Friday January 27, 2017 @10:01PM (#13504623)
If you're talking about NSLs, they've been found constitutional for almost a year now. Still time to buy that first birthday gift!

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/04/in-a-reversal-ju...

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Re:Twitter discloses national security letters by paulddraper on Saturday January 28, 2017 @12:04AM (#13505015)
Sure, I'm just saying that there aren't legal repercussions from violating an unconditional act.
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Re:Twitter discloses national security letters by techbio on Saturday January 28, 2017 @05:23AM (#13505705)
Illegal repercussions then?
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Re:Twitter discloses national security letters by paulddraper on Saturday January 28, 2017 @09:12AM (#13506337)
Um, sure. If no one watches the watchers.
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