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Re:Why offer an Onion Address rather than just encourage bro... by FeepingCreature on Thursday March 10, 2022 @05:54AM (#30625500)
You can always be in trouble by the police for any reason or no reason at all. The question is law. The notion of a warrant canary is that the police cannot compel you to state that you are not under a court order. They can annoy you to lie, and they can always break the law, but they cannot legally force you to. To claim that regardless of this, the police can compel you to lie, is tantamount to saying that the rule of law has failed.

( https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/04/warrant-canary-faq )

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Re:Why offer an Onion Address rather than just encourage bro... by krageon on Friday March 11, 2022 @05:04AM (#30638172)
> To claim that regardless of this, the police can compel you to lie, is tantamount to saying that the rule of law has failed.

Your life quality will take a sharp negative dive if you don't conform to the spirit of what they ask you. Whether or not such things are legal really is immaterial: You will be in trouble anyway. As such, I dislike advice that leans on what the law says.

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Re:Why offer an Onion Address rather than just encourage bro... by vageli on Thursday March 10, 2022 @08:38AM (#30626732)
Has this ever been tested in court?
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Re:Why offer an Onion Address rather than just encourage bro... by FeepingCreature on Thursday March 10, 2022 @09:45AM (#30627480)
Not to my knowledge.

Which can mean "no company has tried" or "no TLA has tried".

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