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Comment by GeekyBear

4 days ago

There wasn't judgement because the Feds dropped a case that would set a precedent they wanted to avoid.

Since there is longstanding legal precedent that corporations are people and code is speech, forcing a corporation to insert code that the US government demands is a violation of the first amendment.

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