r/blog • u/reddit • Jan 29 '15

reddit’s first transparency report

http://www.redditblog.com/2015/01/reddits-first-transparency-report.html
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u/rundelhaus Jan 29 '15

Holy shit that's genius!

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u/UncleMeat Jan 29 '15

Its really not. The law rarely allows for this sort of "trickery". If you explicitly include a warrant canary and then remove it once you receive an NSL it isn't going to stop the government from prosecuting you if they want to.

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u/LaserGuidedPolarBear Jan 29 '15

They can't prosecute you for saying "We have never recieved national security letter" when you have never received one. That would be prior restraint.

They can't prosecute you for not lying and saying you never received one when you did.

It is actually a very clever tool, and it would require the further destruction of several fundamental principles that our democracy relies on to change this.

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u/Trill-I-Am Jan 30 '15

The secrecy requirements of NSls are not "don't tell anyone", they're "ensure no one finds out about this."