I’m trying to think of a response to this that’s hacker news-worthy,
But it’s kind of astounding, if there goal is to get a group of conspiracy theorists off their scent, it seems like they’ve perhaps handled this in the worst possible way? Could this look any worse?
What would you do differently if you were trying to appear more suspicious?
Congress and the courts should be the counterbalance to the Executive branch.
But congress is controlled by the GOP and seems downright afraid of Trump, and the majority of SCOTUS has decided the executive branch is both immune from the law, and not limited by the law in much of any way, including laws established by congress.
If anything the saving grace here should be congress asking questions in a situation like this, but instead the majority there are just sycophants.
This is very bad for democracy. The executive branch should be challenged by the other two, and same goes for those other branches.
> The Streisand effect is an unintended consequence of attempts to hide, remove, or censor information, where the effort instead increases public awareness of the information.
> The term was coined in 2005 by Mike Masnick after Barbra Streisand attempted to suppress the publication of a photograph showing her clifftop residence in Malibu, taken to document coastal erosion in California, inadvertently drawing far greater attention to the previously obscure photograph.
Hey, Mikey. Your congresspeople will have to go home and answer some pretty hot questions asked by constituents. Said legislators might not be so happy with your decision. As always, be careful what you wish for; you might get it.
And this gets flagged, despite being no less relevant here than any number of other non-tech posts that go live frequently with zero issues. It's curious how on a site where the general trend of opinion is against the current administration, posts critical of its policies and activities often still get flagged in no time.
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 19.7 ms ] threadBut it’s kind of astounding, if there goal is to get a group of conspiracy theorists off their scent, it seems like they’ve perhaps handled this in the worst possible way? Could this look any worse?
What would you do differently if you were trying to appear more suspicious?
But congress is controlled by the GOP and seems downright afraid of Trump, and the majority of SCOTUS has decided the executive branch is both immune from the law, and not limited by the law in much of any way, including laws established by congress.
If anything the saving grace here should be congress asking questions in a situation like this, but instead the majority there are just sycophants.
This is very bad for democracy. The executive branch should be challenged by the other two, and same goes for those other branches.
> The Streisand effect is an unintended consequence of attempts to hide, remove, or censor information, where the effort instead increases public awareness of the information.
> The term was coined in 2005 by Mike Masnick after Barbra Streisand attempted to suppress the publication of a photograph showing her clifftop residence in Malibu, taken to document coastal erosion in California, inadvertently drawing far greater attention to the previously obscure photograph.
Hey, Mikey. Your congresspeople will have to go home and answer some pretty hot questions asked by constituents. Said legislators might not be so happy with your decision. As always, be careful what you wish for; you might get it.
In the end.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect