Why do our telecommunications companies seem so intent on competing to be more evil?

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Verizon and its government allies told a federal court judge Thursday that national security requires the dismissal of lawsuit accusing the phone provider of violating federal privacy laws by allegedly providing millions of phone records to a secret anti-terrorism data-mining program. Verizon also argues that the nation's telephone privacy laws interferes with the company's free speech rights....

Verizon lawyer Henry Weissmann argued that the privacy rules that largely bar phone companies from turning over records to the government were unconstitutional. "Communicating information to the government would be speech. Providing information to law enforcement would be petitioning," Weissmann said. "The plaintiff say there was too much speech, that too many records were provided."

Comments

[darwinpolice.livejournal.com]

If you have nothing to hide, then you shouldn't be worried about this kind of thing.

[madspark.livejournal.com]

Which puts the White House refusal to release pretty much _anything_ to congress in a whole new light, eh?

[plural.livejournal.com]

Dude, I'm jewish, we always have something to hide.

Whether it is sacrificing christian babies for our secret ingrediants or our ongoing conspiracies to control the world, we always have something to hide, didn't the nazis teach you anything.

[darwinpolice.livejournal.com]

didn't the nazis teach you anything

Only everything I know, my friend.

Did you lube the llama?

[plural.livejournal.com]

That explains quite a lot about our friendship.