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kabdib on Jan 31, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Footage released of Guardian editors destroying Sn...

The only thing worse than a clueless thug is a thug who has a clue. The only thing worse than a thug with a clue is a thug who knows that he's right, and is on some kind of holy mission.

In the US they'd just whip an NSL on the paper. I wonder how many times this has happened?

eli on Jan 31, 2014 [–]

Huh? NSL? US papers obviously did cover this story and, as far as I know, no US hard drives were required to be destroyed.

ivanplenty on Jan 31, 2014 | [–]

Fair point, we haven't heard of a similar thing happening in the US. However, I'm not convinced we would have heard about it happening.

Consider, this is a _US invention_: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary

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