[AussieWog93]

This is why nobody listens to philosophers.

Why, on any planet, would law enforcement issue a warrant to get user data from a company that doesn't have any user data?

You don't need to dive down into the fundamentals of logic and reasoning to answer this question.

[sp332]

To make them go check. Maybe they got lucky and the site design was flawed.

So they can say they did. The jury will wonder why the investigation didn't include the defendant's search history. Now they can say, "We asked but they didn't have it".

[aasasd]

Because law enforcement is clueless.

Or rather, they won't even bother with these nerdy distinctions.

[kortilla]

“You’re asking for something that doesn’t exist” isn’t a nerdy distinction.

Warrants aren’t like dollar bills the cops just pay to see things. They are issued on a case by case basis by a judge.

[aasasd]

You mean like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29042603 ?