[liberationtech] US Feds Threaten to Arrest Lavabit Founder for Shutting Down His Service | Techdirt

[Daymon Schroeder]

Scary stuff. Kind of reminds me of the act they pass in the book Atlas
Shrugged that forces businesses not to close. I have to agree with Cronk
though, if this becomes public knowledge I would like to hope that people
would laugh out the idea of forcing a private business to remain open. I
wonder what kind of legal right they have to make such a claim.

Daymon
On Aug 19, 2013 12:06 PM, "R. Jason Cronk" <rjc at privacymaverick.com> wrote:

>  As sad as it seems, I hope the do prosecute him....not because I want to
> see him convicted but it would be an excellent test of the law and keep the
> case in the news for the egregiousness that it is.
>
> Jason
>
>
> On 8/17/2013 6:05 PM, LilBambi wrote:
>
> Whoa! That is nuts!
>
> On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Yosem Companys <companys at stanford.edu> <companys at stanford.edu> wrote:
>
>  The saga of Lavabit founder Ladar Levison is getting even more
> ridiculous, as he explains that the government has threatened him with
> criminal charges for his decision to shut down the business, rather
> than agree to some mysterious court order. The feds are apparently
> arguing that the act of shutting down the business, itself, was a
> violation of the order.
> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130816/14533924213/feds-threaten-to-arrest-lavabit-founder-shutting-down-his-service.shtml
> --
> Liberationtech is a public list whose archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at companys at stanford.edu.
>
>
>
>  *R. Jason Cronk, Esq., CIPP/US*
> *Privacy Engineering Consultant*, *Enterprivacy Consulting Group*<http://enterprivacy.com>
>
>    - phone: (828) 4RJCESQ
>    - twitter: @privacymaverick.com
>    - blog: http://blog.privacymaverick.com
>
>
> --
> Liberationtech is a public list whose archives are searchable on Google.
> Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated:
> https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech.
> Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at
> companys at stanford.edu.
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.stanford.edu/pipermail/liberationtech/attachments/20130819/5371e1d2/attachment.html>