If you havent seen the compilation video here it is: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-xVufYXaGg8
He’s being sued because he used publicly available credentials to login to a fox streaming site and recorded the videos of Ye West saying antisemitic things on the Tucker Carlson interview that was cut from the broadcasted version. https://timburkelegalfund.org/ Has more information
I fully support the guy’s work, but also it sounds like the “publicly available credentials” were stolen login info? You can’t use stolen or leaked login info to log in to a system you’re not authorized to use, take data from that system, and then expect no consequences. This is blatantly illegal
Yep. It’s like if a guy wanted to make a video about shrinkflation so he went and shoplifted a bunch of shit.
Was that wrong? Should I not have done that? I tell you, I gotta plead ignorance on this thing, because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started here that that sort of thing is frowned upon…
Classic Costanza
I am a judge and I am setting a precedent that all shoplifting is now not punishable as long as it is from a large corporation.
It’s in the public interest that journalists have special protection for illegally obtained information.
Imagine if Julian Assange was persecuted for whistleblowing on all the illegal shit the gov’t was doing. Oh wait.
Possessing illegally obtained information is completely different from illegally obtaining information though. Publishing documents given to you by an insider or a whistleblower is not the same thing as breaking in to a system and taking documents