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Gab cries foul as Pennsylvania attorney general subpoenas DNS provider
Pennsylvania attorney general Josh Shapiro is probing Gab's relationship with its new domain name provider, Epik. A subpoena sent to Epik, dated Wednesday, seeks "any and all documents which are related in any way to Gab." In a statement to Ars, Gab described the investigation as a "baseless, political, and emotionally-driven witch hunt."
[...] Eric Goldman, a legal scholar at Santa Clara University, told us that the law is clear that Gab would not be liable for hosting content from the Pittsburgh shooter. Not only are the posts likely protected by the First Amendment, but a law called Section 230 gives service providers like Gab—not to mention upstream service providers like GoDaddy and Epik—an extra layer of protection against liability for user-submitted content.
So then what is Pennsylvania's attorney general investigating? Shapiro's office hasn't returned emails and a phone call asking about that. But two legal scholars I talked to for this story couldn't think of a legitimate reason for seeking these kinds of documents. "I struggle to see a legit basis for this," said Ken White, a First Amendment attorney and the proprietor of the popular Popehat blog. Seeking information about Gab's DNS provider "doesn't make any sense at all," legal scholar Eric Goldman told us. In another now-deleted tweet, Gab described the subpoena as a form of harassment. Could this be an attempt to punish Epik for doing business with Gab? Goldman described this as plausible and said that this kind of tactic could raise First Amendment issues. [...] Goldman doubted that an attorney general sending out subpoenas would be enough, on its own, to violate the First Amendment. But if it were part of a broader campaign to discourage providers from doing business with Gab, that could raise significant free speech concerns.
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(Score: 2) by VLM on Friday November 09 2018, @12:35PM (2 children)
Seems very unlikely. As a counterexample, obviously the leftists have killed vastly more people, caused more suffering, caused more environmental damage, etc.
Read your old testament, again there's worse people out there. As an example, the Soviets actually accomplished worse.
Mere anti-right propaganda, nothing to do with moral virtues or whatevs.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday November 09 2018, @03:56PM
Let me think that one over. It was Nazis who invaded Russia, right? Can't remember for certain - didn't 16 million Russians die before the last Nazi was booted out of Russia? Or, maybe 16 million was total Russian losses throughout the war. That almost matches the 20 million Russians killed off by the Soviet. Add in the 6 million Jews, queers, Gypsies, etc, and the Nazis have exceeded the Soviet for deaths.
Old testament? Which people, exactly, do you think are "worse" than either Nazis or communists? Maybe we would have to agree what "worse" means. It would be a little difficult to find anyone in the Bible who managed to kill 20 million people. The world population just wasn't that high back then. An entire dynasty, back then, would have worked very hard to kill that many people.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 09 2018, @06:48PM
Hi dummy, I see you're posting more of your dummy stuff. You know they have a cream for your condition now?