"In terms of the comments, everybody knows the internet is a forum where exaggeration and hyperbole take place," Chow told BuzzFeed News. "These comments are in that category. Nobody believes that these people are going to go and put this judge in a wood chipper."
Free speech advocates also worry that such subpoenas burden websites with significant legal costs and could have a chilling effect on speech. The subpoena also has specific implications for anonymous speech.
Granted that the comments were tasteless - unnecessarily so at that - but it sends an ominous message to others who engage in anonymous discourse on the internet -- Big Brother is watching you and will bring the hammer down. Obama and his fascist Justice Department have been running wild in waging a war on journalists and whistleblowers, invoking the World War I era Espionage Act to stifle government critics. The Reason subpoena - which should be getting far more coverage than it has to this point - is also an indicator that the mass surveillance of the American public isn't limited to the bulk collection of telephone data, that has always been somewhat of a red herring. The feds and their contractors are collecting all of our online communications, searches, texts and medical and financial data as well.
Whatever one may think of the online bazaar Silk Road and those who frequented it for sexual action, sick pornography, drugs, weaponry and other nefarious reasons, the chatter by a few nitwits in a comments section about the judge in the case is at least theoretically free speech. So much for that great ruling for Elonis over his Facebook postings because he is just a small fish in the pond whose offenses didn't rise to the level of daring to criticize the corrupt government in Obamastan.
Obama's new Attorney General Loretta Lynch has had one hell of a start to her new gig. There was the sweetheart deal with the big banks over the FOREX currency market rigging, the politically motivated international bust of several FIFA officials as cover for revoking the 2018 World Cup from Russia and now the escalation of the police state. The pissing contest over Lynch's confirmation provided a nice racially tinged cover for the fact that she is yet another establishment insider, a fox tasked with guarding the hen house. Her service on the board of the New York Federal Reserve while Timothy Geithner was heading it was a dead giveaway.
Lynch is a very dangerous woman and she is just getting warmed up right now, keep that in mind when you are making your comments folks.
Fascism just never sleeps here in the Homeland.
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