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- Huh, this explains why I've seen some pretty wildly obtuse far right posts being promoted to the top of the discover page on Snapchat.by sky2224
- Snap aiming for sovereign immunity? Next they'll be issuing passports. That's a truly wild legal argument.by Mugshelf
- Guess Snap's data collection became so comprehensive that states are comparing them to a government entity. Wild times.by Ellis_dev
- My idiot brain's first thought was "goddamn Canonical and their feature creep nonsense. what the hell have they done now?" before reading the article.by drooopy
- Smith-Mundt Modernization Act as an excuse for addictive algorithms, what a time to be alive.by phendrenad2
- Wild move for Snap to try claiming state actor status. Definitely sets a strange precedent for corporate liability and user data.by Marchant_hq
- As someone whose seen first hand how addictive it can be among adults with type A personality, and how it causes relationship issues because they can't stop consuming the content - it feels to me true about the lawsuit itself, but all other social media is doing the same doom-scrolling.
Why Snap is choosing to list it's ties with DHS to get into federal court is confusing - what benefits would Snap get by going to federal?
by cremp - If we assume Snap's legal department is competent and sane, does that suggest any interesting hidden motives?
For example, is it possible that they were coerced into doing something state-actor-y for the federal government, but they're not allowed to mention it because their speech has been stifled with a National Security Letter? (I know some lower courts ruled them unconstitutional in the past, but I'm not sure what the current status-quo is.)
"Oh, we're so sorry, oh most-honored and wise and ethical Executive Branch, we tried to cooperate, but somehow that Judicial Branch just started telling us we can't..."
by Terr_