Information EFF says FBI gag orders violate service providers' free speech rights

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  1. Belahzur Freedom Fighter

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    The Electronic Frontier Foundation has released redacted copies of key documents in a constitutional challenge to national security letters (NSLs). These controversial legal tools give the FBI warrantless access to private customer information held by businesses. The law gives the FBI the power to ban a business receiving an NSL from disclosing its existence, but EFF contends that this runs afoul of the First Amendment.

    http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...violate-service-providers-free-speech-rights/

    Belahzur, Jul 18, 2012
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    From the same article:

    And, he [Stone] argues, Verizon isn’t protecting their users out of principle or out of an interest in legal fairness, but rather to protect their highest-paying customers, which, according to Stone, are pirates.
    “There is no commercially available service that can even take advantage of the top-tier bandwidth,” he said. “You don't need 50Mbps down to use Hulu, Netflix, iTunes or anything. Who the hell pays for 50Mbps down? P2P file-sharers. That's who pays. That's on the Internet side, they're making profits from those who want to file-share.”

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    Antman, Jul 18, 2012
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EFF says FBI gag orders violate service providers' free speech rights

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