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To: Duker who wrote (3376)	10/4/1999 9:29:00 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 5867

Big Brother is alive and well....very sad<eom>

To: Duker who wrote (3376)	10/4/1999 11:50:00 AM
From: Kirk ©	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 5867

Silicon Investor (www.techstocks.com), one of the most popular stock-chat sites, says it tries to notify users who are the subjects of subpoenas, but says it has no commitment to doing so. "It's just not practical for us. We would need an entire subpoena staff to handle something like that," says Ethan Caldwell, general counsel for Go2Net, Silicon Investor's parent. Mr. Caldwell says the site receives about one subpoena a day, and in "about half" of those cases is able to give users warnings that the site is about to turn over their personal information. Since Silicon Investor is a subscription-based site, that information includes credit-card numbers and billing addresses. THAT is absurd! They have been entrusted with some VERY VALUABLE personal information and they should make ALL EFFORTS to let us know when they are going to violate that trust. Journalists and police have been known to go to jail in "contempt of court" rather than give up confidential sources... Here they say they will just roll-over! Pathetic.

To: Duker who wrote (3376)	10/4/1999 1:37:00 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5867

Duker, Makes one want to become a full-time lurker. The people running SI may want to rethink this policy. Given that people like you or I may revert to lurker status, fewer posts will result, meaning less revenue for SI, and this in turn will mean fewer lurker even visiting the site. Aside from the constitutional right to express opinions about companies(this does not include outright slander of course), the handing over of personal data should only be allowed in the most egregious cases, probably only where a court order imposes such. BK