DoJ goes off the deep end

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15 Nov 2011, 7:57 pm

The U.S. Department of Justice is defending computer hacking laws that make it a crime to use a fake name on Facebook or lie about your weight in an online dating profile at a site like Match.com.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57324 ... e-a-crime/

I'll let people read the article and discuss.

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15 Nov 2011, 8:22 pm

Our justice system is flawed, confusing, and downright silly? I'm surprised.

http://www.cracked.com/article_19450_6-laws-youve-broken-without-even-realizing-it.html

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15 Nov 2011, 8:22 pm

So Holder wants to prosecute for false names and accounts like this? :roll:

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15 Nov 2011, 8:30 pm

The Department of Justice is doing what they are bound by the constitution to do?!

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15 Nov 2011, 8:32 pm

John_Browning wrote:

So Holder wants to prosecute for false names and accounts like this? :roll:

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15 Nov 2011, 8:38 pm

J_B,

thanks for showing me the best facebook page. ever... lmao

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15 Nov 2011, 8:43 pm

Holy crap. PPR got way more hilarious since I was here last. That was a good laugh. Thanks, J_B!

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17 Nov 2011, 12:37 pm

(shrug)

The law is not a static thing. Language is elastic, and language means different things to different people--generally for reasons of self-interest.

So the DoJ pursues one line of argument; a defendant will pursue another and in the end the court will attempt to give some clarity.

You may consider this to be "going off the deep end," and that point of view is certainly a valid one. But for my part, I am more interested in what is motivating this interpretation from the DoJ. The DoJ doesn't actually care if you lie about your weight on match.com. But they do care, it would seem, about violations of Terms of Service. Now, it seems to me a key issue of interest to them is the use of the internet for money laundering, and there are many means by which, for example, multiple user accounts can be used to facilitate that practice.

Now, that's not to say that the ends justify the means--the DoJ has to be able to stand up in court, argue its interpretations and defend is investigative practices, to be sure. But I don't dismiss this as silly quite yet.

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