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They are charging him under two laws and well outside the intent of both. The first is what is informally called the Klan Act, a law enacted to protect black churches during reconstruction when they were targeted by the KKK. The second is called the FACE act, a law from the 90s that was intended to protect abortion clinics but in a compromise with conservatives protects churches as well - notably this law requires violence to have been inflicted so I have no idea how they justify using it, the original magistrate judge crossed it out on the warrants for the 3 protesters he agreed to charge.

This is all transparently vindictive prosecution of journalists who are unfriendly towards the administration. The protesters themselves should only be charged with trespassing or disturbing the peace at most, but the DoJ is entirely compromised into a weapon against the American people.

Just to be clear. He is still being charged, they arraignment judge just set the bail to $0. .

Because if middle managers even in other companies are tracking people's locations then people are more likely to think that my software that asks for their location will be used to track them even though it doesn't.

That is certainly a direction. I hope you have robust redunacies on the concentrator.

Using the Klan Act to prosecute a black journalist covering a protest on Martin Luther King Day. Our DoJ, ladies and gentlemen.

This will break a lot of applications.

This shit makes my job harder. I am required by law to provide a PSAP with the location data of any 911 caller (within a pretty tight radius). I have to use software in concert with softphones which requires the user enter their location when logging in the phone on their computer, just in case it is used to dial 911. This isn't optional, we could face serious legal penalties if a user dials 911 and the response is delayed because the responders go to the wrong place.

My stuff is only used for 911. We don't keep track. Really. There's not even a mechanism to do that.

But when MS pulls this invasive bullshit it makes people afraid that my 911 software is doing the same thing. It makes them lie on the form or refuse to put anything in it. It makes them less safe and it makes my life difficult trying to convince them that the software we are using really is just for safety and that nobody, not even me, has access to it.

I bet he did Nazi that coming.

What a yutz. His constituents deserve better.

Also worth noting that the statement is a lie. Even if Walz capitulated ICE would continue to victimize Minnesota.

That's not how rights work.

After their attempt in New York, I think they are trying to set up standing to bring a ban on abortion drugs to the SCOTUS.