rysiek wrote: > Dnia piÄ…tek, 25 grudnia 2015 08:57:12 Rayzer pisze: >> Alfie John wrote: >>> On Fri, Dec 25, 2015, at 05:36 AM, grarpamp wrote: >>>> I'm at a loss as to why we received it >>> To cause a chilling effect: >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilling_effect >>> >>> Alfie >> If the feds wanted info on an account that was usable the last thing >> they'd want Twitter to do was give the account holder the shivers. > They might not want the information (they probably have it any way), but they > might want to convince those people to stop doing what they're doing. And > chilling effect tends to work for some. > For some... Trust me.. I know that. From something I just typed to someone offlist regarding my younger daze...
> My father, who, as I mentioned, was a US Army-attached coordinator for > technical writers during the Gemini and Apollo program, was spooked by > the feds and had his security clearance threatened because of my 16 > year old asses involvement in the anti-Vietnam War movement brought to > the fed's attention by the New York city "Red Squad" (Bureau of > Special Services). At that time they didn't know he hadn't seen me in > 10 years and had little sway over my life. Today, as Ed Snowden's dox > show, they WOULD know, and they can do this sort of stalking to anyone > in minutes, if not an hour or so. -- RR "You might want to ask an expert about that - I just fiddled around with mine until it worked..."
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