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0 pointsjeff_carr2y ago0 comments

The IRS being accused of being criminal all the time doesn't gain any confidence running it's own user authentication through a foreign country instead of login.gov.

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gumby2y ago· 4 in thread

> The IRS being accused of being criminal all the time

What?? I read the news a lot and don’t see this.

I doubt login.me has any connection to Montenegro except for which registrars manage the domain name itself. This is not a defense of their choice of vendor.

macinjosh2y ago

Just one example:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/irs-committed-alarming-civ...

gumby2y ago

Ah yes, the “subcommittee on weaponizing government”, a credible, neutral group.

I do believe this was an issue (in fact suborned by FBI practices) in the 1960s against civil rights targets, but I haven’t seen any credible accusations since the Nixon era.

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gosub1002y ago

My guess is they are incorporated there as a preemptive move against an "Experian hack" level event. Then all you have to sue is an offshore PO box.

Terr_2y ago

> My guess is they are incorporated there

I don't think the correlation between domain-choice and legal-incorporation is strong enough to support that guess, much like how bit.ly probably isn't incorporated in Libya.

AFAICT ID.me is incorporated in the US state of Delaware, a popular choice due to its local laws.

pjc502y ago· 3 in thread

That's a problem of Republicans making things up, though. Criminal accusations are apparently free speech.

Propelloni2y ago

That's not a problem of one party making things up. It's the fallacy of defective induction, aka. faulty generalization.

Are there cases where state institutions infringe on peoples' rights? Yes. Do they do it all the time? No.

Is Donald Trump a selfish liar? Yes. Are all Republicans selfish liars? No.

It's making me sad to see it here on HN so often.

macinjosh2y ago

The Biden admin literally sent an IRS agent to the house of a journalist at the same time he was testifying on capitol hill about government censorship online. The IRS has guns and police power. It wasn't a coincidence. They use it to intimidate people they don't like.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/irs-committed-alarming-civ...

lupire2y ago

Original publisher of article, not MSN cloakspam site:

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/irs-committed-alarming-c...

The Taibbi visit is certainly fishy. But knocking on his door to intimidate him when he's not there is weird tactic to be intentional.

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gumby2y ago· 4 in thread

> The IRS being accused of being criminal all the time

What?? I read the news a lot and don’t see this.

I doubt login.me has any connection to Montenegro except for which registrars manage the domain name itself. This is not a defense of their choice of vendor.

macinjosh2y ago

Just one example:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/irs-committed-alarming-civ...

gumby2y ago

Ah yes, the “subcommittee on weaponizing government”, a credible, neutral group.

I do believe this was an issue (in fact suborned by FBI practices) in the 1960s against civil rights targets, but I haven’t seen any credible accusations since the Nixon era.

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gosub1002y ago

My guess is they are incorporated there as a preemptive move against an "Experian hack" level event. Then all you have to sue is an offshore PO box.

Terr_2y ago

> My guess is they are incorporated there

I don't think the correlation between domain-choice and legal-incorporation is strong enough to support that guess, much like how bit.ly probably isn't incorporated in Libya.

AFAICT ID.me is incorporated in the US state of Delaware, a popular choice due to its local laws.

pjc502y ago· 3 in thread

That's a problem of Republicans making things up, though. Criminal accusations are apparently free speech.

Propelloni2y ago

That's not a problem of one party making things up. It's the fallacy of defective induction, aka. faulty generalization.

Are there cases where state institutions infringe on peoples' rights? Yes. Do they do it all the time? No.

Is Donald Trump a selfish liar? Yes. Are all Republicans selfish liars? No.

It's making me sad to see it here on HN so often.

macinjosh2y ago

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/irs-committed-alarming-civ...

lupire2y ago

Original publisher of article, not MSN cloakspam site:

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/irs-committed-alarming-c...

The Taibbi visit is certainly fishy. But knocking on his door to intimidate him when he's not there is weird tactic to be intentional.

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