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Facebook Moderator Gets Subpoena in Wikileaks Case
netbuzz writes "Lawyers for the Swiss bank that got the plug pulled on Wikileaks.org have dragged a Stanford grad student/human rights activist into the case because he moderated a discussion group about Wikileaks on Facebook. He has no relation to Wikileaks or the case, other than that he helped authenticate documents — completely unrelated to the bank matter — that were posted on Wikileaks. The guy and his lawyer have done a nice job of making lemonade out of this lemon, though."
I wish they would sue me so I could make some money :(
If only there were a centralized -- or decentralized, but easily available -- site where leaked documents like these could be posted for perusal. Alas, what a pipe dream in these United States.
FreeBSD for the impatient.
too bad, i wikileaked your id.. not so anonymous now are you? you will be hearing from my lawyers shortly.
Bar rules these days seem to be limited to carding people who look under 21.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
President Nixon tried that. It didn't work out too well for him.
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure dome decree
my great grandfather said it only counts with horse-shoes.
my grandfather said it only counts with horse-shoes and handgrenades
my father said it only counts with horse-shoes, handgrenades, and thermonuclear weapons
I say that it only counts with horse-shoes, handgrenades, thermonuclear weapons, and the mars rover lifespan estimates.
My son will probably say "Close only counts with... umm, hold on, let me look it up."
Now a story (from an Italian friend living in Zug) to explain the Swiss mentality. A bit off topic, but you need to understand the Swiss to get the background.
A small factory owner lives in Zug, a few miles from Zurich, and has a son. The son grows up and marries a girl from Zurich, then goes to live there. For eighteen months he commutes back to work in his father's factory, then suddenly his father sacks him. He asks why. Reply: "All you people from Zurich are untrustworthy".
Since the fall of the Wall in 1990, _nobody_ in Europe does guilt by association like the Swiss.
From scarped cliff or quarried stone she cries "A thousand types are gone, I care for nothing, no not one."
I would think that in matters of reproduction, being close counts quite a bit.
Close only counts with... approximation algorithms?