“Recently, Congress, the administration, and pundits have not been shy about threatening to use material support against social media companies like Twitter. Wittes and Bedell reason, it’s not a great leap to see how a judge would find Apple equally guilty. Apple would violate the law, the two write, if it continued to provide its encrypted services to a customer after the FBI has served a warrant for the customers’ communications. Wittes and Bedell argue that ‘the sale of an encrypted phone by a major company to the general public cannot plausibly constitute material support for terrorism.’ We’re not so sure.”
http://www.defendingdissent.org/now/news/shapeshifting-material-support-apple/
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