{"id":2448,"date":"2008-03-11T05:48:20","date_gmt":"2008-03-11T11:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/we-dont-need-no-stinkin-immunity\/"},"modified":"2008-03-11T10:17:30","modified_gmt":"2008-03-11T16:17:30","slug":"we-dont-need-no-stinkin-immunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/we-dont-need-no-stinkin-immunity\/","title":{"rendered":"We don’t need no stinkin’ immunity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Duhbya is desperate for immunity for the telecoms who rolled-over for him. Only they don’t even care. They’re actually insulted he things they need immunity. peace, mjh<\/em><\/p>\n

Think Progress \u00bb Communications trade group opposes retroactive immunity. <\/p>\n

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In a letter<\/a> to Congress late last week, the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) \u2014 which represents groups such as Google and Microsoft \u2014 said that it \u201cstrongly\u201d opposes retroactive immunity for firms that cooperated with the administration\u2019s warrantless wiretapping. CCIA President and CEO Edward Black writes<\/a>: <\/p>\n

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CCIA dismisses with contempt the manufactured hysteria that industry will not aid the United States Government when the law is clear. As a representative of industry, I find that suggestion insulting. To imply that our industry would refuse assistance under established law is an affront to the civic integrity of businesses that have consistently cooperated unquestioningly with legal requests for information.<\/strong> This also conflates the separate questions of blanket retroactive immunity for violations of law, and prospective immunity, the latter of which we strongly support.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Think Progress \u00bb Communications trade group opposes retroactive immunity.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Duhbya is desperate for immunity for the telecoms who rolled-over for him. Only they don’t even care. They’re actually insulted he things they need immunity. peace, mjh Think Progress \u00bb Communications trade group opposes retroactive immunity. In a letter to Congress late last week, the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) \u2014 which represents groups … Continue reading We don’t need no stinkin’ immunity<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}