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Supreme Court rejects appeal by Elon Musk's X on disclosing federal surveillance

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19 pointsbarbacoa19 comments

Thanks for trying, X.

  ... argued that the federal government’s prohibition on the company disclosing the exact number of receipts of national security-related requests for surveillance of users was unconstitutional, and should be granted only in exceptional cases

It seems wrong to prevent reporting not just of the particulars of the surveillance but on the scale of it as well. It hides important perspective from the voters more than it protects national security. Or perhaps it's an attempt to protect the security apparatus from the voters.

And the argument that disclosing the "number of requests made" should be a state secret is...? Oh right, it would expose the plenitude of the misbehavior by our government.

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LULZ

I wonder what would happen if they published a list of all their users who are not currently under surveillance, or gave them a nice little icon. I feel like somebody tried this before, but my Google searches are coming up empty.

Yes, the canary in the coal mine technique. As far as I know it's not illegal, but you only get a count of '1'.

Will Musk release all of his dirty laundry dealing with our enemies?

Hey Friend. This topic is not about Musk. Start a new thread if you want to go down that rabbit hole.

This is about our government and it's abuse of power.

Yes it is, it's about Musk's attempt to undermine our country by playing interference for our enemies.

Fighting corruption of the government doesn't undermine the country. Hiding it does.

There is nothing corrupt about lawfully obtaining information on people. Musk framing this as corruption is an attempt to flame conspiracy theories. If not, I hope he will release all of his dealings with all international organizations.

There is nothing lawful about mass surveillance of Americans by the government. It's explicitly against the Constitution.

Musk should just leak the requests if he thinks it's so indefensible. But he won't, because he has nothing. Just secrets that he's legally obligated to keep. Looking forward to Musk leaking the communication with Russia and China, because clearly his goal is to fight authoritarianism, not undermine the U.S.

Snowden did leak and now is in grave danger. You underestimate how much the corrupt government can harm Musk.

Snowden released thousands of documents to propagandists like Glen Greenwald, that went on to publish information outside the scope of what could be protested under the constitution. He is a traitor, and deserves everything he got.