A warrant entitles you to search a specific place for a specific thing. It isn't a letter of marque. Courts can't order the FBI to go Dirty Harry up the Internet if it brings down that damn drug website. That's illegal.

Of course, who watches the watchers? The US government already imprisons people for life without trial or charge, interrogates using the same torture techniques the Soviets used on captured Japanese scientists, and surveils the diplomats of its own allies. It might be, and you know, probably is committing industrial espionage.

At some point you have to raise your head up, see the forest amongst the trees, and just admit that the rule of law is dead in the world. The power asymmetries are too vast, and the people who rule your life know it.

Sure you can equate the two cases. Someone with power decided weev and Ross would be removed from the board and so they were. Let that be a lesson to anyone who could piss off the truly powerful.