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by Supermancho 1519 days ago
Obviously, you've been correct the whole way.

> Presumably investigating someone over that would violate their 5th amendment rights, no?

>I asserted that 5th amendment should prevent the government from using this coerced testimony.

This kind of revisionist interpretation, that a poster will engage in to make an altogether different assertion, is not uncommon on HN. Pointing it out gets downvoted, overall making the conversations worse because it's viewed as nitpicking, when it's really just trying to avoid bad faith...wasn't there an article posted about this recently?