Published on Sep 12, 2013 by RT
Yahoo’s CEO says internet companies are being put under serious pressure by the US government not to talk about what information intelligence agencies are requesting. She said even talking about the PRISM spy program could see her face charges of treason. RT’s Marina Portnaya has the details. READ MOREhttp://on.rt.com/uts5xa
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So talking about the NSA’s treason is treason?
How much more Orwellian can you go???
The question is though, is this not a clash with 1st Amendment? Whilst passing on tank and military movements to the Chinese could be really classed as a treason but whistleblowing illegal activity cannot ever be a crime and something you would imagine a Soviet type nation arresting people for.
I am still also interested in how US jurisdiction of law seems to apply globally when it does no such thing, domestic jurisdictions extend only to the territorial water limits and no further save at embassies and on aircraft, in the UK if you commit a crime in another nations jurisdiction, the UK cannot claim primary law and it falls to the domestic jurisdiction of that land to arbitrate the law and this should be meat and potatoes to the right kind of lawyer who would argue that if US law applies judicially to its citizens whilst abroad then the 1st Amendment equally applies judicially to its citizens if they speak out against the government.
Until there is a guaranteed legal remedy for secret crimes, then the only tool, the only power we have is in the disinfectant of the sunlight, my mum’s old editor Mr Hume used to coin the phrase at the London Times… Publish and be damned! And that was the precise attitude the media should have as the old Times was feared by corporation and government alike until Thatcher allowed Murdoch to steal it from DC Thompson
I think this Yahoo! CEO is shoveling it. They’re just worried about public relations, and losing a lot of traffic to their websites.
I think yahoo, facebook, twitter, and all the other offending internet companies were willing participants in our government’s spying schemes, and are now only trying to hold onto their customers by claiming they had no choice in the matter. BS — they could have made a public announcement when this began, but they were sure they’d never be caught.
I don’t use Yahoo anymore, and I’ve never used the others, and I’m sure there are millions like me who have made the same decision based on their surveillance practices.