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The Supreme Court announced Monday that it would hear a major digital privacy case that will determine whether law enforcement officials can demand user data stored by technology companies in other countries.
In 2013, federal investigators obtained a warrant for emails and identifying information tied to a Microsoft Outlook account they believed was being used to organize drug trafficking. The problem was that the emails were stored overseas in Ireland, where the anonymous user of the account registered as a resident.
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If the court sides with the Department of Justice lawyers in this new case, the government will have unfettered access to the data tech companies store all over the world, provided it has a warrant. During the appeals court case, Microsoft's lawyers argued that the US is essentially trying to say that its laws extend across borders.
A superpower can demand all the extraterritoriality it wants.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 18 2017, @11:15AM (5 children)
Sexism favors women? Sure. That's why they're most of the Fortune 500 CEOs, most of the state governors, most of the state and federal legislators, most of the top judges, most of the billionaires.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday October 18 2017, @01:38PM (3 children)
You and Google are so very busy, pushing women into STEM and other careers despite what the women might want. Yes, your sexism favors women. You'll give a man the axe, if you can get your quota up a little higher by replacing him with a woman.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 18 2017, @02:23PM (2 children)
And what is wrong with that?
Woman need to be more involved, and I did my best to encourage that.
-- H. Weinstein
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday October 18 2017, @03:00PM (1 child)
That's cool and all - but did you ask the women what they want, or what they need?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 18 2017, @08:13PM
Is this a giant whoosh?
(Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Wednesday October 18 2017, @02:51PM
This is why kyriarchy is a more functional theory of cultural avenues of power. (Thanks to Azuma for promoting the concept.) As much as I rail at feminists, we must also look behind their power to see the real power backing them. Lo and behold, it's still that old boys' club!
There is a lot of dysfunction. Women will happily vote for male politicians (even ones who are demonstrably toxic to women and fully intend to erode women's rights) because they believe in the subservience of women. Any more, women are women's greatest enemy, at least as long as democracy lasts and they have the right to vote. Women make authoritarian followers just as well as men do. There's a trick to that, of course. The old boys' club, the Masters of the Universe (who may or may not be lizard people, but certainly people who are experts at using the average slob's lizard brain against her own interests) realized they've got a hell of a thing going on with feminism. Feminism these days is a puppet of the powerful, its efficacy as a cudgel wholly borrowed from its past triumphs when it used to be a movement about equality and empowering those systematically deprived of power.
Back on the ground, though, it's true that feminists seem to have a reality distortion field that puts the late Steve Jobs to shame! If you were assigned the male gender at birth, no matter your body parts or grey matter physiology requiring advanced technology to reveal, it's best to watch out. Feminists have determined that you're a poisoned M&M. Unfortunately, when a movement determines that an entire demographic are poisoned M&Ms, that means that any hope of equality goes out the window. People in one demographic consistently treat you like shit, see no problems with lying to your face, set you up as a scapegoat time and time again, fuck with your access to basic medical care, etc, etc. Eventually one learns that Schrödinger's rapist is actually a mirror: when one is Schrödinger's rapist, the demographic that seems to consistently hold such toxic views against one becomes Schrödinger's bigot.
And that doesn't help anyone, not one bit. If I knew how to explain to a bigoted womyn-born-womyn why she's missing the target and not helping empower womyn-born-womyn one damned bit by focusing on just making life difficult for powerless assigned males, I would also have the answer key for disarming the alt-right. That's what modern feminism's become. Though, somebody else came up with something more clever than I ever could given my wordy nature. It's the alt-right and the ctrl-left. Everybody has their alternative, truthy facts.
tl;dr The captain of the NCC-2000 Excelsior once said, “You're absolutely right. But you're also absolutely wrong.”