Now read this carefully:
What would you do if those top executives were disappeared? Perhaps shudder with fear?
Demand they be brought before a judge?
These people are already tied into great money flows, so a Federal Prosecutor would be slow to act no matter what. These people have pretty extensive security teams, with lawyers on call. Certainly a standoff might occur, if an arrest were attempted.
So, it seems "going to jail" was unlikely, and if they had gone to jail, that may be a bit more problematic. There is the unknown. If they had been afforded rights as Americans, then they would have the best Lawyers in the world getting them out.
Also, Snowden revealed NSA wrongdoing on the face of wrongdoing. How much sooner would he have revealed the wrongdoing, in the face of executives disappearing? how much more safe he would be if the information had led to a defense of Zuckerberg and Mayer. How many more would have revealed if USA citizens were actually being arrested over revealing wrong-done activities.
The most interesting aspect to me in all of this is how neither China nor Russia particularly cared about what Snowden had in his files? How come? It would seem that whatever the NSA gets, China and Russia are cc'd on it anyway. Only we USA citizens are not to know what our country is up to.
Yes, Zuckerberg and Mayer may have gone to jail for revealing government secrets, but the secrets were regarding acts of wrongdoing. At any point they may have simply refused to cooperate, and then face that music, whatever it is. And at some point, forced the issue by taking the arrest.
They owed at least that much to the USA people who have given them so much. They should think first about their customers, and not so much about experiencing some discomfort.
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Marissa Mayer, the CEO of Yahoo, struck back on Wednesday at critics who have charged tech companies with doing too little to fight off NSA surveillance. Mayer said executives faced jail if they revealed government secrets.Ok... walk through this. You wake up one morning and you find the CEOs of yahoo, Facebook and Google arrested and disappeared. Why they have been arrested is top secret. (We now know they would have been arrested for revealing that the NSA was snooping on USA citizens without warrant.)
What would you do if those top executives were disappeared? Perhaps shudder with fear?
Demand they be brought before a judge?
These people are already tied into great money flows, so a Federal Prosecutor would be slow to act no matter what. These people have pretty extensive security teams, with lawyers on call. Certainly a standoff might occur, if an arrest were attempted.
So, it seems "going to jail" was unlikely, and if they had gone to jail, that may be a bit more problematic. There is the unknown. If they had been afforded rights as Americans, then they would have the best Lawyers in the world getting them out.
Also, Snowden revealed NSA wrongdoing on the face of wrongdoing. How much sooner would he have revealed the wrongdoing, in the face of executives disappearing? how much more safe he would be if the information had led to a defense of Zuckerberg and Mayer. How many more would have revealed if USA citizens were actually being arrested over revealing wrong-done activities.
The most interesting aspect to me in all of this is how neither China nor Russia particularly cared about what Snowden had in his files? How come? It would seem that whatever the NSA gets, China and Russia are cc'd on it anyway. Only we USA citizens are not to know what our country is up to.
Yes, Zuckerberg and Mayer may have gone to jail for revealing government secrets, but the secrets were regarding acts of wrongdoing. At any point they may have simply refused to cooperate, and then face that music, whatever it is. And at some point, forced the issue by taking the arrest.
They owed at least that much to the USA people who have given them so much. They should think first about their customers, and not so much about experiencing some discomfort.
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
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I thought this comment was the most revealing:
"When you lose and you don't comply, it's treason," said Mayer. "We think it make more sense to work within the system," she said.
In other words, Yahoo is a department of the government and will continue to take orders from the powers that be. Good reason to short Yahoo's stock.
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