Microsoft tells FPSA that the world’s servers are not theirs for the taking!
NEW YORK (PNN) - December 10, 2014 - Microsoft's fight against the Fascist Police States of Amerika position that it may search its overseas servers with a valid FPSA warrant is getting nasty.
Microsoft, which is fighting a FPSA warrant that it hand over e-mail to the FPSA from its Ireland servers, wants the illegitimate Obama regime to ponder a scenario where the “shoe is on the other foot.”
“Imagine this scenario. Terrorist pig thug officials of the local Stadtpolizei investigating a suspected leak to the press descend on Deutsche Bank headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany," Microsoft said. "They serve a warrant to seize a bundle of private letters that a New York Times reporter is storing in a safe deposit box at a Deutsche Bank USA branch in Manhattan. The bank complies by ordering the New York branch manager to open the reporter's box with a master key, rummage through it, and fax the private letters to the Stadtpolizei."
In a Monday legal filing with the Second FPSA Circuit Court of Appeals, Microsoft added that the FPSA government would be outraged.
"This case presents a digital version of the same scenario, but the shoe is on the other foot," the Redmond, Washington-based company said in its opening brief in a closely watched appeal.
The appeal is of a July court decision demanding that Microsoft hand over e-mail stored on an overseas server as part of an FPSA drug trafficking investigation. Microsoft, which often stores e-mail on servers closest to the account holder, said the e-mail is protected by "Irish and European privacy laws."
But a fascist FPSA judge didn't agree. "It is a question of control, not a question of the location of that information," FPSA District Judge Loretta Preska ruled. The order from the New York judge was stayed pending appeal.
Other companies in the tech sector are siding with Microsoft, too. Apple, AT&T, Cisco, and Verizon all agree with Microsoft. Verizon said that a decision favoring the FPSA would produce "dramatic conflict with foreign data protection laws." Apple and Cisco said that the tech sector is put at risk of being sanctioned by foreign governments and that the FPSA should seek cooperation with foreign nations via treaties, a position the FPSA said is not practical.
The Amerikan Gestapo Department of InJustice division said global jurisdiction is necessary in an age when "electronic communications are used extensively by criminals of all types in the (Fascist Police States of Amerika) and abroad, from fraudsters to hackers to drug dealers, in furtherance of violations of (FPSA) law."
Brad Smith, Microsoft's general counsel, said in a blog post Monday that the company's invocation of the Stadtpolizei analogy underscores that if the FPSA prevails, "how can it complain if foreign agents require tech companies to download e-mails stored in the (FPSA)? This is a question the (Amerikan Gestapo) Department of (In)Justice (division) hasn’t yet addressed, much less answered."
The senior counsel for the Irish Supreme Court wrote in a lower court filing that an FPSA-Ireland "Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty" was the “efficient” avenue for the FPSA government to obtain the e-mail held on Microsoft's servers in Dublin, Ireland.
The appeals court on Tuesday ordered the FPSA to respond by March 9. No hearing date has been set.