Yeah, the nuisance here is we've gotten so accustomed to these weasel phrasings so people get away with 'well I never expressly said X but...' so people write it off as just being mushy on a topic. Particularly when it comes to something with such a polarized public opinion.
Good on them. I actually live in one of the reddest parts of the state and find myself surrounded by maga noise on the regular. It was disturbing though watching on election night just how long it took to call MN. We used to be one of those places like CA where they could pretty well declare a winner the moment the polls closed.
Sounds like the typical politician/lawyer threading the needle. Basically to say abortion should be legal, but it sucks when it has to happen, and I want someone else to make the choices (and take the heat) on restricting them.
That seems problematic, in order to be considered for this 'verified' that's supposed to make you more credible you have to have first marketed yourself extensively enough to get a not insignificant amount of installs and reviews first.
In the particular one that came to mind if I recall correctly was a badly configured distro list that let anyone reply to it. Normally broadcast lists like that would be reserved for people on a special comms team, but the permissions didn't get restricted properly.
I'm sure someone can lawyer up a way to skirt the crybaby's command. Say they didn't 'publish a communication' but rather that 'data was made available through existing public and partnership channels'.
I've read of a couple small places. Was a coffee shop in the cities around here where they guy running it for 20+ years wanted to get out and the staff decided that rather than a new owner they would raise funds to buy it. Sort of run like a direct democracy with some rules based on seniority and such.
Yeah, the IT folks in charge of that are doing so at gunpoint. Had someone do that at a giant size corp and the chain of events goes like this.
Email to all gets sent
A few people wonder why they are getting messages not related to their role and reply all to be taken off a list.
Those reply-all get replicated to the same few hundred thousand boxes causing stress on the system.
You well meaning college sends out a reminder via reply-all that you shouldn't reply-all.
Because those few transactions created somewhere in the order of 2-3 million emails in a short time the servers have a backed up que to chew through causing some people to get things out of order, so maybe they get a 'take me off the list' after the fist 'stop replying all', now this person decides to help reinforce the 'stop replying all' with their own message of the same.
Rinse and repeat until the servers are entirely unable to operate and you need to find a way to flush the cache.
BONUS: Because this is the federal government you can bet that several entities they have contracts with would have automatic relays to distribute incoming messages to required teams for quick responses, so there's a good chance the effect bleeds into private businesses too because Donnie & Musky will demand that ALL means everyone in the federal contacts list.
Yeah, the nuisance here is we've gotten so accustomed to these weasel phrasings so people get away with 'well I never expressly said X but...' so people write it off as just being mushy on a topic. Particularly when it comes to something with such a polarized public opinion.