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And if the goal’s to bring those sites to heel, it appears a legal reinterpretation of Section 230 isn’t the only way to skin the cat.
On May 26 the Las Vegas Review-Journal carried an article on an ongoing tax-evasion trial in the local federal courts. The paper described the accused as “a self-made entrepreneur [who] paid his workers in gold and silver coin, and said they could go by the coins’ face value — rather than the much higher market value of their precious metal content — for federal tax purposes.”
“Bottom line: We could fight the federal subpoena, at considerable expense, and lose. Our attorneys are now trying to see if we can limit the scope of the information sought.”
Message sent; message received. And the Nevada ACLU, distressed by the Review-Journal‘s new mood of acquiescence, was filing a motion of its own to quash the second subpoena.
