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| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
Not on a "civil liberties" axis perhaps, but certainly on a moral plane. It's not just the actual hackers who went to all that malicious effort to get the information, it's the millions of people currently gleefully revelling in the utter violation of the privacy of individuals in a way that directly, publicly and lastingly humiliaties those individuals. If you're happy - no, make that joyous - to throw away the precepts of your beloved Constitution if it means seeing a pair of famous tits then how can you credibly claim to hold that Constitution so dear when it suddenly dawns that you might become a victim? |
No disagreement from me, it's why I brought up the "spirit" of the constitution in this case, as this same community was crying foul over PRISM and is now happy to share some very dire and similar violations among themselves. But to be more specific, the US constitution -by its letter- is a bulwark against the potential abuses of federal government, hence why the NSA violating certain articles was particularly egregious. Individuals cannot typically violate the US constitution, as they are not laws or agencies unto themselves, and the spectrum of accountability cannot be legislated into sweeping precedent... or at least I can't think of any comparable examples?
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