Remember when Matt Gaetz stormed a SCIF? His justification was that they were holding "secret impeachment hearings"?
I led over 30 of my colleagues into the SCIF where Adam Schiff is holding secret impeachment depositions.
And the reality was that it was a briefing on how we had agents from the CIA inside low level positions of the Ukrainian government working with the Government that were watching Russian moles that also had positions in the Ukrainian government? And that Russia had found out that it was happening but hadn't figured out who it was so they were launching all kinds of operations to try and get some information on who to kill? And this whole meeting was to figure out how best to help those agents before they got killed?
Fun times.
And what's even better, you haven't heard peep from Gaetz about his "brave" storming the SCIF since. Because he almost got a bunch of people fucking killed with his stunt, was told he almost got a bunch of people fucking killed, and all that "brave" shit disappeared like a fart in a hurricane. So...
These ass-hats are putting people’s lives and national security at risk over this nonsense
It's not just this nonsense they're doing it over. They do it over all kinds of bullshit. And people like Gaetz do not vet shit and eat it up like it's the gospel. And nations like China, Russia, India, and what not know these fuckers will eat it up and feed it to them. They constantly bitch about "government conditioning" and other pyops bullshit, but they themselves are the major victims of it.
It's got to be a fucking uphill battle when you have a political party that's just eating foreign bullshit and calling domestic intelligence "weaponizing government". Our intelligence apparatus does not want these fuck wits handing our country over to someone else, but goddamn it, they keep having so little trust in the USA because, IDK, but all I can chalk it up to is that they are absolutely fucking morons. They just want "someone" to be wrong so they can stroke their massive ego dicks is the best I can figure out.
What's that mnemonic device for counterintelligence? MICE. There are four general things that will convince someone to betray their nation, "Money, Ideology, Compromising information, and Ego". And goddamn it, these fuckers get every single one of those tickled by the very fuckers that want to destroy this country. It has to be frustrating to see them time and time again sitting up there in the committee acting like some CIA agent that risked their lives trying to keep bad people out of our interests is fucking trying to destroy Donald Trump or some shit. Like, "MY DUDE. Bigger picture here Senator/Representative. Believe it or not, there's more to all of this shit than some megalomaniac asshat who was once President." Shocking!
Yeah that's literally UNENFORCEABLE. We just had a case last year that indicated that you can scrap data from sites so long as the data being scrapped isn't used for profit.
Additionally, scrappers cannot be legally held to have agreed to the TOS. Just simply typing an address in and then receiving a page back doesn't mean that anyone agrees to the TOS of the server that gave the page. For pretty much the same reason software couldn't enforce the "if you don't agree with the terms on the CD-ROM, then you cannot open the package the CD-ROM is in." So just because X wrote that in their TOS has zero bearing on if they can actually enforce that through the court system, which likely that's going to be a big NAH.
That's based off of the point of the gate-up/gate-down test given by the courts. If a normal person can find a random "tweet (are we still calling them that?)" by typing a URL, the gate is up, you cannot pick and choose who gets to enter. If you don't want a random tweet being scrapped the gates must be down. That means nobody typing in a random URL can ever access that tweet, they have to go through the gate house to gain entry to the resource. But gates down means that no one is going to link to a tweet because when they click the link, instead of seeing the related information, they get handed a login page. Which X has been trying that and news outlets bitching that they're not going to post tweets in their story if Musk is just going to block everyone.
The thing that X could argue is that someone is using their tweets for "profit" which is exactly the case they're trying with the ADL and the CCDH. They're trying to argue that these not-for-profits are profiting off of convincing ad buyers to not buy ads. Which, if that sounds crazy, OH BOY IS IT. However, Musk's lawyers have attempted to muddle the waters on what is
"PROFIT". So grab some popcorn for that one.The thing is that, I get Musk wants to hold tight copyright on the tweets and not surface a lot to others who might use that data for who knows what purpose. BUT you cannot have cake and have eaten it as well. Musk doesn't get the best of both worlds. He can put everything behind a wall and attempt to enforce his TOS, but that's still not really go to go well for his ADL/CCDH case. Or he can surface the tweets for the Internet to read. But he cannot have both. We've settled that in courts and Congress hasn't made any kind of motion in changing that standing.