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Re:Sky Global CEO indicted over encrypted chat drug trafficking by salawat on Monday March 15, 2021 @08:28PM (#26471363)
The correct response in his case was civil disobedience, cracking open every last detail of what he was being put through, and counting on the rest of us to come to our senses.

It's sad, but there really is no other way to reasonably confront tyrannical overreach. If you play by the rules and refuse to be non-compliant, you also sacrifice the one weapon an overreaching Administration has to fear: the Truth.

Now in a more naive mindset in my life I'd say go to the press. Nowadays though? It's a hard call who to go to to get the thumbscrews turned on those in power.

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Re:Sky Global CEO indicted over encrypted chat drug trafficking by anonymousiam on Monday March 15, 2021 @09:32PM (#26471837)
Normally I would disagree with you and say that following the law is the best course of action, but the article that Ladar Levison wrote for The Guardian (here: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/20/why-di...) makes it clear that he should have disobeyed the court summons and allowed himself to be arrested. Had that been the case, he should have been afforded the right to counsel because his liberty was at stake.
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