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by Terr_ 480 days ago
Missing word: "Illegal" access.

Henchmen violating privacy laws is just as illegal as of they were murdering people in the street. There's no "because your boss is a clown" exception.

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Political appointees including the IRS commissioner have never had direct access to the system before given its sensitivity. There are likely legal ramifications that will be worked through the courts on this.
It is going to be decided soon if courts have any practical enforcement ability at all against them. Could get very ugly.
What happens if court says "it's ok"?
Then Musk will use the data to further his aims. Dissidents will have addresses, employers, etc exposed, for randos to use to abuse the dissidents.
So like how leftists have been hounding and doxing people for the last decade?

What goes around comes around, wake me up when something unexpected happens

Do you have sources on leftist administrations doxing people in the last decade? If not, and it is just randos who are on the left, then you aren't making a valid comparison. Did those leftists have access to every person's information in the way that Musk does?

This is a false equivalency I've been seeing for a very long time: Someone on the right claims that the left is just as extreme as the right (usually they're claiming the left is more extreme), when the people they are referring to on the left are nobodies with little to no political influence or power, whereas on the right the extremists run the entire party and currently control the entire government. It isn't a valid comparison.

There will always be nuts in any large enough group, the difference is that the left doesn't give them outsized power, whereas the right elects them as congresspeople and president.

Nice "whataboutism". We also had right wingers doxxing and cancelling pro-palestine protestors very recently.

If it was wrong for "leftists" to do something, that makes it morally correct for right wingers to do it? Do no t right wingers have moral agency of their own?

Beyond all that, these "leftists" weren't the US government, they did not have historical employment and income and related data, and they didn't have the capability of organizing some kind of large scale smear campaign with other arms of the government.

[Citation missing]
This is inevitable. US attorneys are being given orders inconsistent with the law and DOJ rules. US attorneys are resigning instead, Democrat and Republican. Eventually the only people left are those willing to follow Trump's orders rather than the law.

The federal government is nearing a state of abeyance. It's run by a mafia. Why wouldn't they come for judges next?

Sadly they're already coming after judges: https://www.axios.com/2025/02/16/impeachment-judges-republic...
That article says that they are talking about introducing articles of impeachment, which have almost zero chance of succeeding. So, no, not "already", and not in a way that is likely to do anything.

That's more "performative bloviation" than anything of substance.

We need US military to step in and jail all traitors.
And if the court says it is not ok? Trump will pardon Musk.
The word "illegal" has no meaning in this context. It's like telling the fox it is not allowed to enter the henhouse after handing it over the keys and the deed.