From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "Jim D"  wrote in message news:2018111513171569216-Not@ThisAddresscom...   
      
   > I had some friends who started an early internet company. Not a business   
   > on the net, and actual net server outfit.   Sadly, I didn't invest ......   
   > oh well, win some, lose some.   
   > What I learned from them was that they would fairly regularly be served   
   > with court orders to hand over peoples emails and whatever else ( search   
   > histories, and who knows ).  They promptly gave up whatever was ask for.   
   > No arguments, no fight ... just give the court what it wanted. I guess   
   > sometimes these things were delivered by uniformed police. Not good people   
   > to debate with.  And, like my friend Phil ( he co-owned the comany ) said,   
   > it wasn't his concern or his fight. If some subscriber got in trouble with   
   > the law, he wasn't getting in the middle.   
      
   > They sold the company after a few years. Took the money and ran .... smart   
   > guys.   
      
   That's NOT how to *win* back our Country from Tyranny!   
      
   Way back in the '90s, my very first ISP was being harassed by the JackBoots   
   over come kind of involvement in their SS caper called 'Operation Sundevil',   
   alegedly about their going after 'illegal hacking activities':   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sundevil   
      
   The whole thing sounded kind of silly and when their company became an ISP,   
   when the internet was still relatively 'new', and I mentioned that they had   
   a very good price, I was given all sorts of Fear-motivated advice not to go   
   near them, but being an American, I did anyway and their service was very   
   good, and reasonably priced.   
      
   When TERRORISTS are Allowed run America, into the ground, it's NOT America   
   any more!!!   
      
   > If you become the target of the gov, they will find everything you ever   
   > thought about posting. At least going back a good number of years. Old   
   > Compuserve posts ... who knows.  But anything even remotely recent,   
   > ,,,,,,,,  think about it before you type it.   
      
   JimD   
      
   At least they might get an education ;)   
   And I never post anything I wouldn't want to say in court, before congress,   
   or anywhere else.   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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