Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Federal courts enforce Facebook leftism

Facebook is famous for forcing (((their leftist political views))) on us, but at least it is just a free service that you can use or not use as you please. Or so I thought.

Computer crime law professor Orin Kerr writes:
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit has handed down a very important decision on the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, Facebook v. Vachani, which I flagged just last week. For those of us worried about broad readings of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the decision is quite troubling. Its reasoning appears to be very broad. If I’m reading it correctly, it says that if you tell people not to visit your website, and they do it anyway knowing you disapprove, they’re committing a federal crime of accessing your computer without authorization.
And if you violate the Facebork terms of service, you could be sent to federal prison.

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