In Nazi Germany it was lawful and mandatory to report on Jews, communists and minorities and the inability to do so or aiding them in any way would often end in the death of the person involved.
You can't throw out common sense and basic decency just because something is "the law".
It doesn't necessarily mean the mention was unwarranted or inappropriate.
Seriously ????
These examples establish that there is a limit to blindly pinning morality and the law. These examples to not make statements about where that limit is, nor do these examples serve to equate any of the governments' actions.
A comment that implies this specific court order was evil, or even moderately wrong, needs to be accompanied by supporting rhetoric about _why_ it was wrong, some indictment of our system of due process. Without such supporting arguments the comments are just disposable invocations of Godwin.
That is an implication you invented. The person who quoted MLK has in fact already very explicitly and painfully clearly stated that he thinks no such thing[1]. If you continue to think that he was implying that, then you are the one that's got an issue.
This "mock offense at historical allusions" shit has no place on HN. It is transparent as hell and does nothing but gum up the discussion.
I've read every comment in this thread and I don't see anybody making even a semi-cogent argument about how due process was violated in this case. Remember, the US Constitution does not guarantee your privacy. It guarantees that you won't be deprived of it without due process of law. That process appears to have been followed here, by the government at least. People like the Lavabit founder who refuse to comply with the results of due process are as guilty of undermining our system of laws as any corrupt law enforcement agency.
I was previously giving you the benefit of the doubt and leaving myself open to the possibility that you simply had not seen it (since it is technically in response to himself) but if you really did read his response, then continued to misrepresent his comment that way, then you are doing nothing but shitposting.
Well, there were zero mentions of Nazis before we started. Then you brought Nazis into the picture. I can imagine, based on how you've brought up a completely unrelated topic, you must be drawing some sort of comparison. Otherwise why mention them?
Even if you're not saying they're identical, they aren't even on the same order of magnitude. Compare this to Soviet surveillance, or some other oppressive regime if you must. Don't bring the murder of millions of innocent people into the discussion just to prove a point. It trivializes a horrible event.
I think you need to spend less time writing accusational posts and more time reading the posts that other people have written here.
Seriously; take a deep breath, relax, and read.