Some legal guidelines function like hidden entice doorways — everybody walks throughout the entice at one level or one other, however solely a handful of us truly fall by. For the wealthy, it’s the regulation in opposition to insider buying and selling; for the remainder of us plebs, it’s the Laptop Fraud and Abuse Act.
On Thursday, federal regulation enforcement arrested journalist Tim Burke and arraigned him in courtroom in handcuffs. Twelve of the 14 expenses levied in opposition to him within the since-unsealed indictment are underneath the Laptop Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), the federal anti-hacking statute.
The story begins with Tucker Carlson’s extraordinarily cursed interview of Kanye West in 2022. Most interviews are edited for readability; on this case, the interview was minimize to exclude a rambling, antisemitic rant. That…
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