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by jeff_carr 830 days ago
The IRS being accused of being criminal all the time doesn't gain any confidence running it's own user authentication through a foreign country instead of login.gov.
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That's a problem of Republicans making things up, though. Criminal accusations are apparently free speech.
That's not a problem of one party making things up. It's the fallacy of defective induction, aka. faulty generalization.

Are there cases where state institutions infringe on peoples' rights? Yes. Do they do it all the time? No.

Is Donald Trump a selfish liar? Yes. Are all Republicans selfish liars? No.

It's making me sad to see it here on HN so often.

The Biden admin literally sent an IRS agent to the house of a journalist at the same time he was testifying on capitol hill about government censorship online. The IRS has guns and police power. It wasn't a coincidence. They use it to intimidate people they don't like.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/irs-committed-alarming-civ...

Original publisher of article, not MSN cloakspam site:

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/irs-committed-alarming-c...

The Taibbi visit is certainly fishy. But knocking on his door to intimidate him when he's not there is weird tactic to be intentional.

> The IRS being accused of being criminal all the time

What?? I read the news a lot and don’t see this.

I doubt login.me has any connection to Montenegro except for which registrars manage the domain name itself. This is not a defense of their choice of vendor.

Ah yes, the “subcommittee on weaponizing government”, a credible, neutral group.

I do believe this was an issue (in fact suborned by FBI practices) in the 1960s against civil rights targets, but I haven’t seen any credible accusations since the Nixon era.

I can forgive you for not reading the article on the MSN spam site. Here's the original: https://www.nationalreview.com/news/irs-committed-alarming-c...

It's literally an investigation into the government weopanizing the IRS.

The IRS published documents you can view yourself to see their misdeeds. The IRS has since apologized and updated policy to curtail (but not eliminate) the authoritarian behavior.

You don't give yourself credibility by making up names.

> You don't give yourself credibility by making up names.

"Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government", according to the article at your link, is literally the source. I made no name up.

My guess is they are incorporated there as a preemptive move against an "Experian hack" level event. Then all you have to sue is an offshore PO box.
> My guess is they are incorporated there

I don't think the correlation between domain-choice and legal-incorporation is strong enough to support that guess, much like how bit.ly probably isn't incorporated in Libya.

AFAICT ID.me is incorporated in the US state of Delaware, a popular choice due to its local laws.