Jussie "MAGA Country" Smollett
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@Siam said in Jussie "MAGA Country" Smollett:
All your data?
As much as I want to see Juicy scapegoated as a message, is this a one of those times where the principle of privacy outweighs the schadenfruede?
Having the law pore through your life seems a bit over the top, whatever the charge.
We've all accepted our online life can be seen by others and there is no genuine privacy but have we seen the potential real life repercussions of all our stored data, and in this case, at the whim of a judge.
Stinks a bit, to me. He lied and carried on like a pork chop - convict him on that.
Absolutely, the guys a piece of shit but being able to access that data seems like over reach. Unless the warrant is specific for searches related to the hoax.
So much is going to leak.
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I think the new EU rules mean you can request companies provide you with all the data they have on you.. but unsure if that includes all historic activity and/or data. California just enacted some new law also - have seen references to it come up on some IT helpdesk software we use.
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State attorney Kim Fox is also having to lawyer up..a year worth of data is harsh but then I think of the threshold of his crime. He tried to start a race war for both personal and political gain..and he then double downed on it when mainstream outlets lapped it up...and then the charges basically disappeared after what appears to be potentially high-level political interference/corruption.
I think this meets the threshold for the data request. Might be a lot more to this yet.
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@Kirwan said in Jussie "MAGA Country" Smollett:
@Rembrandt If they can do it form him, they can do it for anybody. This is a bad precedent.
I pity the person that has to go through my search history.
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@Kirwan I'd be surprised if this is a precedent. Google history searches appear to be a standard investigatory tool, a years worth however is concerning. Would you see a particular threshold as acceptable for such a court order? For me it would have to be loss of life or political corruption. Of course some courts will abuse it but I don't think cutting it out entirely is appropriate for some crimes.
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I will add I'm in the process of detaching from Google due to some of their more concerning decisions of late. If they were to team up with a dodgy government during a moral panic from the public and media you'd have a devastating tool for citizen persecution.
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@Kirwan said in Jussie "MAGA Country" Smollett:
Unless the warrant is specific for searches related to the hoax.
It not be a difficult concept to grasp
Unfortunately some people divide the world into white hats vs black hats. Jussie has a black hat so fuck him. The same people cheering this on will then complain when the same is done to a white hat
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@Duluth said in Jussie "MAGA Country" Smollett:
@Kirwan said in Jussie "MAGA Country" Smollett:
Unless the warrant is specific for searches related to the hoax.
It not be a difficult concept to grasp
Unfortunately some people divide the world into white hats vs black hats. Jussie has a black hat so fuck him. The same people cheering this on will then complain when the same is done to a white hat
Yeah, it's that old saying about I was quiet until they came for me
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The gift that keeps on giving.
Jussie Smollett indicted by grand jury on six counts for making false reports, special prosecutor says
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@Salacious-Crumb oh dear. I wonder if any kind of plea deal around mental health might save him from a prison term? Because his grip on reality seems really tenuous!
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@Salacious-Crumb said in Jussie "MAGA Country" Smollett:
The gift that keeps on giving.
Jussie Smollett indicted by grand jury on six counts for making false reports, special prosecutor says
I thought Tupac was gay
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@Rembrandt said in Jussie "MAGA Country" Smollett:
@Salacious-Crumb said in Jussie "MAGA Country" Smollett:
The gift that keeps on giving.
Jussie Smollett indicted by grand jury on six counts for making false reports, special prosecutor says
I thought Tupac was gay
What?
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@mariner4life It's a thing. An interesting rabbit-hole to go down.
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@Rembrandt said in Jussie "MAGA Country" Smollett:
@mariner4life It's a thing. An interesting rabbit-hole to go down.
Is that a euphemism?
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The Chicago Sun-Times a day after they endorsed her re-election candidacy (and allegedly sank $250,000 int9 her campaign):
Smollett indictment puts Foxx back on defense
The timing of Special Prosecutor Dan Webb’s new indictment of Smollett, five weeks before Election Day, couldn’t have been worse for Foxx.
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And her campaign’s response suggesting the pre-election announcement was part of some Trumpian political conspiracy is her latest fumble of a matter that she just can’t seem to get right.
Once Webb made the determination that the proper course of action was to seek charges against Smollett, what was he supposed to do? Wait until after the election?
If the situation was reversed and Webb had found no reason to bring a case against Smollett, then Foxx and her supporters would certainly have wanted that decision announced before the election, not afterward.
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Excellent point.
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This is from Newsweek and funnily enough they appended a video of Jussie.
RACIST THREATS AND ATTACKS THAT RATTLED A CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY CAMPUS WERE FAKED, POLICE SAY
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Dominguez Peña, who was living in campus housing and named in the threat, found her parked car emitting smoke. Someone had tried to start a fire with a backpack inside the vehicle. The university cancelled all remaining classes that day and the La Verne Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation stepped in to investigate.
The back-to-back incidents rattled the community, forcing the administration to hold town hall-style meetings and cancel more classes the following week. But no arrests were made. Some students blamed the university for allowing racism to fester and warned that it would only be a matter of time before another racist attack. Two months later, Dominguez Peña reported she was attacked by a masked individual who placed a bag and rope over her head, groped her and slammed her head against the railing in a dormitory stairwell.
All the cases remained unsolved—until March 9, 2020. After nearly a year of investigations involving multiple agencies, the LVPD said at a press conference that Dominguez Peña, 25, had faked the threats against herself and others in ten total separate "incidents." The same day, she was arrested on felony charges of making criminal threats and perjury, as well as seven misdemeanors related to electronic impersonation and filing false police reports.
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Jussie’s in court. He claims he was having a physical relationship with one of the Nigerian brothers. Says he got a text from CNN’s Don Lemon telling him the Chicago PD did not believe him. (What is it about CNN anchors consorting and giving legal advice to accused criminals?) And the Nigerian brother, when asked who the audience for their hoax was, answered, “the media.”