Feds Investigating People Who Watch Certain YouTube Videos, “It’s Unconstitutional, It’s Terrifying and It’s Happening Every Day”
March 23rd, 2024Via: Forbes:
Federal investigators have ordered Google to provide information on all viewers of select YouTube videos, according to multiple court orders obtained by Forbes. Privacy experts from multiple civil rights groups told Forbes they think the orders are unconstitutional because they threaten to turn innocent YouTube viewers into criminal suspects.
In a just-unsealed case from Kentucky reviewed by Forbes, undercover cops sought to identify the individual behind the online moniker “elonmuskwhm,” who they suspect of selling bitcoin for cash, potentially running afoul of money laundering laws and rules around unlicensed money transmitting.
In conversations with the user in early January, undercover agents sent links of YouTube tutorials for mapping via drones and augmented reality software, then asked Google for information on who had viewed the videos, which collectively have been watched over 30,000 times.
The court orders show the government telling Google to provide the names, addresses, telephone numbers and user activity for all Google account users who accessed the YouTube videos between January 1 and January 8, 2023. The government also wanted the IP addresses of non-Google account owners who viewed the videos. The cops argued, “There is reason to believe that these records would be relevant and material to an ongoing criminal investigation, including by providing identification information about the perpetrators.”
Ours is a world where normal people who live according to the Constitution are found in groups here and there, surrounded by people who know little about it and could care less, who are themselves surrounded by people who despise both groups and the Constitution itself. The last group has by far the most power over the others through its weaponization of everything that can be weaponized. They haven’t yet succeeded in weaponizing the Constitution, though they keep trying (Katanji et al).
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