Petition the Whitehouse to remove Carmen Ortiz from office

Re:Petition the Whitehouse to remove Carmen Ortiz from office by rdl on Saturday January 12, 2013 @04:04PM (#5048887)

Maybe we should be replacing prosecutors who remain technologically ignorant years after these issues come up. If her job responsibilities include prosecuting computer crime, she needs to understand the applicability of computers to crime, otherwise she's not doing her job. Being old and an appointed official is no excuse anymore.

It's not as if she's a holdover from the Reagan years. She was an early appointment by President Obama.

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Re:Petition the Whitehouse to remove Carmen Ortiz from office by eurleif on Saturday January 12, 2013 @04:15PM (#5048913)

I'm not disagreeing here, simple asking for information: how has she demonstrated an ignorance of technology?

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Re:Petition the Whitehouse to remove Carmen Ortiz from office by danso on Saturday January 12, 2013 @04:17PM (#5048919)

I know you're responding directly to the parent comment but for my part, I'll say that that's not my own accusation, just a possible speculation. Sometimes the reasons for terrible machinery to move ahead are rather banal.

I'll say for sure that a lot of the initial backing by legislators for SOPA/PIPA was just status quo informed by vague technical understanding of the issue, and not because everyone was in the pockets of the movie industry.

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Re:Petition the Whitehouse to remove Carmen Ortiz from office by rdtsc on Saturday January 12, 2013 @10:11PM (#5049828)

She has demonstrated either horrible incompetence or maliciousness.

Looking at the way the prosecution built its case, the hyperbole, misdirection, inaccuracies dealing with the technical aspects at least, I cannot but attribute at least one of the above attributes to them.

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Re:Petition the Whitehouse to remove Carmen Ortiz from office by rdl on Saturday January 12, 2013 @05:16PM (#5049107)

Prosecuting downloading information in violation of terms of service as an abuse under CFAA.

The 9th Circuit (the best circuit!) ruled this was bullshit in US vs. Nosal.

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Re:Petition the Whitehouse to remove Carmen Ortiz from office by eurleif on Saturday January 12, 2013 @05:24PM (#5049126)

That sounds more like legal ignorance than technological ignorance -- which is probably worse.

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Re:Petition the Whitehouse to remove Carmen Ortiz from office by tedunangst on Saturday January 12, 2013 @05:33PM (#5049149)

Well, Boston isn't in the ninth circuit. I'm also curious how you would summarize the Nosal ruling.

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