…and so it begins…the dismantling of our ‘rights’.
I wonder if anyone with half a brain still thinks Trump et al aren’t fascist
“Over the line, dude!” – W. Sobchak. This is absolute overreach, and I hope the ACLU succeeds in quashing this subpoena. Apparently, it’s now a crime to criticize the Naked Emperor…oooo kkkkkk.
Facebook successfully fought to have the gag removed
This, for me, is the most disturbing part of this entire, very disturbing, story. The gag order clearly shows the Trump administration deliberately seeking to cast a a veil of stealth over its dismantling of civil rights. If Facebook hadn’t chosen to risk the administration’s wrath by fighting that gag order, thousands of people who did nothing more than Like a planned protest event would have already been placed on a secretive enemies list – with zero public disclosure of that having happened.
Reading or commenting on an anti trump posting on Facebook is now a crime?
Reading is now a crime
Only in trump’s fascist America.
And then they came for me but there was no one left to speak up for me …
This is wrong. We are entitled to our privacy under the constitution of the United States of America clearly this is an invasion of our privacy. They arrested people that were physically there that participated in illegal at the demonstrations there is no need for this information to be let out to anyone it should be be protected by Facebook. Period. And who’s to say they won’t take these names and link it up with other information this it ministration is gathering on motors and such
The warrants came as part of an investigation into alleged rioting on Inauguration Day.
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OKaay
What riot would that be exactly…assuming the crowd was as tremendously huge and happily pro-trump as trump has said it was?
Meanwhile, of course, similar warrants have been prepared for anyone who interacted with the various russian-sponsored groups attempting to subvert the legitimate government of the united states – oh, wait.
What riot. I do not recall any such thing on that day anywhere.
Now we could argue about crowd size until we are blue in the face but it is still true trump’s crowd was not as big as Obama’s and that’s the fact. Q.E.D.
I do. The riot happened. It wasn’t widely reported on left-leaning media. Not saying that justifies these sorts of obviously politicized warrants nor does it justify jailing journalists. But pretending it didn’t even happen is not going to fly.
Where was it reported on right wing media then?
Inquiring minds want to know
Far as I know Breitbart and Fox were doing the happy dance.
I don’t know about right-wing coverage. I read about it on reuters. Or do you include reuters in your classification of right-wing media? There was also a (short, as i recall) mention in wapo.
I’ll hafta dig a bit to see where this “riot” happened and what the low-down skinny here is. Just a moment…
It may depend on your definition of “riot.” There’s post-King verdict LA or Chicago Dem convention rioting, and there’s some folks at the inaugural protests got out of hand and stupidly broke some windows and caused relatively minor property damage “riots.”
OK
From the WaPo the “famous burning of Washington DC” riot lasted 30 minutes and cost 3-4 flash bang grenades and a couple injured policemen (probably from the grenades themselves which to nasty things to one’s hearing). 30 minutes is a damned short riot.
Not hard to find. Here’s WaPo:
Also a follow-up article:
I’ve seen “riots” first hand. That was no riot.
Bad behavior? sure. Reason to fine someone and a couple months in the pokey? sure. Riot> and a reason to take personal information from *innocent people via a warrant when no crime was committed…that’s invasion of privacy and a contravention of our Constitutional rights right there
Think of it as a riot for snowflakes.
Some journalists are still locked up because they were on the scene. The administration is (deliberately?) dragging its feet on actually prosecuting/charging. That much has been a pretty significant story. But you can’t read about that without also knowing there was in fact violence and property damage.