Comment by bostonpete

12 years ago

> actions taken abroad aimed at non-US persons.

Aren't Google and Yahoo US persons?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood#Corporatio...

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unreal37  12 years ago

Actually, if I were Google or Yahoo, I would be getting my lawyers to prepare some type of lawsuit. Not that I think it will succeed, but Google/Yahoo are direct victims here.

  • bilbo0s  12 years ago

    Well...

    given the game the leakers are playing with these documents...

    I would wait before I made any definitive statements about who is a victim and who is a villain.

    The release of these documents seem to be carefully timed and calculated to give the government, corporations and people involved in the surveillance state the time and latitude to incriminate themselves.

    Not only are the Government, the corporations and the people involved trying to tell a story... clearly the leakers are trying to tell a story as well.

    Are we at the climax of the leakers' plot? or are we still building?

    I think it might be best to get a look at all the cards first... and then decide what happened.

mpyne  12 years ago

Doesn't Google and Yahoo both operate shell companies overseas in order to avoid US taxes though?