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Did the Stack Exchange staff members assist in the apprehension of Ross Ulbricht?
The recent arrest of someone behind Silk Road is in the news today, he was arrested in a San Francisco public library. A couple of background articles here and here.
To what extent, if any, did ...
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Social media disclaimer policy for SE Staff
The most recent SE incident (as well as several others earlier) was largely inflated by the interaction of SE/SE Staff with the press and some social media interactions (tweets/re-tweets, in ...
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What privacy expectations are moderators who gain privileges by being SE employees subject to?
The moderator agreement, located at https://meta.stackexchange.com/legal/moderator-agreement, has the following text at the bottom:
I acknowledge and agree that I am an independent volunteer ...
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Hire one (or more) "official" lawyer to roam the [legal] questions on the SE network
IANAL et al. is usually the start of answers to [legal] questions on any SE site (e.g. this). You usually end up with personal opinions which sound sensible and the accepted answer is often the one ...
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Is Stack Exchange going to limit content related to work about open-source code or statistical data likely to be under a ban in the United States?
The Office of Foreign Assets Control which is the agency for managing sanctions, took sanctions not only against the organisation of an open source project, but made it broad enough to target the open ...
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