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Julian Sanchez
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Like most “break up the platforms” arguments, this one suffers from an Underpants Gnome gap between the problem it’s identifying and the “solution" it proposes. nytimes.com/2019/05/09/opi…
Let’s stipulate Facebook’s enormous ability to influence the dissemination of news stories and political messages is concerning. Instagram is pretty peripheral to that, and WhatsApp is already e2e encrypted, severely limiting Facebook’s ability to put its thumb on the scale.
So if “break up Facebook” means “force it to spin off Instagram and WhatsApp,” maybe there’s a case that advances some *other* goals, but it’s hard to see how it does much to address the thing Hughes has just identified as his core concern.
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Julian Sanchez
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The responses to this suggest a depressing number of people find this shocking and outrageous. Folks, this isn’t some new idea... it’s the core of all modern 4th Amendment law. We throw out evidence from improper searches, even if you were actually doing a crime.
If the cops bust into your home or hotel room or any other private space without a proper warrant, any evidence they find is supposed to be suppressed—whether it’s video of you paying hookers or the bloody knife you did a murder with last Tuesday. “Exclusionary Rule.” Not new.
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So, people claiming they are in mortal danger in their home countries should... all converge on the same extremely public location in their home countries? Will this be called the “I Don’t Understand What Asylum Means Act of 2019”?
“No, I’m sorry, we can’t accept your domestic abuse report unless you call it in from your home phone...”
I guess this makes the review process faster. “Look, if your own government really WERE trying to kill you, you’d have been murdered at the checkpoint a block from the embassy like all those other saps. APPLICATION DENIED.”
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Julian Sanchez
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This is desperate, ludicrous, and internally incoherent. It’s astonishing they found lawyers shameless enough to say this to an actual court. And my bar for being astonished at the shamelessness of attorneys is pretty high.
I assume ludicrous & desperate are obvious; “internally incoherent” because if you say a president can’t be indicted & impeachment is the only remedy for misconduct, then it can’t be “law enforcement” for Congress to investigate potential presidential misconduct.
Even aside from specific applicability to the executive, where this argument is weakest, the precedent says “Congress can’t act as a law enforcement agency”—not “Congress can’t investigate conduct that may involve crimes, period.”
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