Silliness in Washington

[unixronin]

It appears the FBI sent Wikipedia a cease-and-desist letter for displaying an image of the FBI seal on the Wikipedia main article page about the FBI, citing a law intended to prohibit use of the Seal for profit or for misrepresentation of identity.

It also appears that Wikipedia's response was appropriately snarky.

(Via rosencrantz23)

Comments

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

To a large extent, I think, yes. Too many laws are selectively enforced only against those people someone wants to punish for bucking the system ... harassment on obscure technicalities, charges that amount to "contempt of cop", enforcement of only the profitable laws.