Comments on: Ashcroft on the Telcos’ Get-Out-Of-Jail Free Card http://techliberation.com/2007/11/05/ashcroft-on-the-telcos-get-out-of-jail-free-card/ Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology Sun, 27 May 2012 01:17:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: DJH http://techliberation.com/2007/11/05/ashcroft-on-the-telcos-get-out-of-jail-free-card/comment-page-1/#comment-39755 DJH Tue, 06 Nov 2007 03:34:13 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2007/11/05/ashcroft-on-the-telcos-get-out-of-jail-free-card/#comment-39755 <p>"The public officials in question might be right or wrong about the advisability or legality of what they are doing, but it is their responsibility, not the company’s, to deal with the consequences if they are wrong."</p> <p> Is this not similar to the "I was just following orders" line of defense?</p> “The public officials in question might be right or wrong about the advisability or legality of what they are doing, but it is their responsibility, not the company’s, to deal with the consequences if they are wrong.”

Is this not similar to the “I was just following orders” line of defense?

]]> By: DJH http://techliberation.com/2007/11/05/ashcroft-on-the-telcos-get-out-of-jail-free-card/comment-page-1/#comment-45300 DJH Tue, 06 Nov 2007 03:34:13 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2007/11/05/ashcroft-on-the-telcos-get-out-of-jail-free-card/#comment-45300 <p>"The public officials in question might be right or wrong about the advisability or legality of what they are doing, but it is their responsibility, not the company’s, to deal with the consequences if they are wrong."</p> <p><br>Is this not similar to the "I was just following orders" line of defense?</p> “The public officials in question might be right or wrong about the advisability or legality of what they are doing, but it is their responsibility, not the company’s, to deal with the consequences if they are wrong.”


Is this not similar to the “I was just following orders” line of defense?

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