Reply #314: authorities should

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still have to follow legal procedures for obtaining personal info, even about those who utter threats. If it's easy to get info without due process from Skinner about these posters, then anyone can get info about the rest of us if they want to, for any trumped-up reason. When you give your personal info to a message board, you want assurances that it will not be released without the proper legal means used to obtain it.

It worries me that many people do not understand that requests for info can be used for all sorts of devious purposes. These days it pays to be cautious and not give out anything until you're sure that things are what they seem. Never take anything at face value. Maybe my house is not hard to break into, but I'm still not going to hand anyone the key very easily.
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edit: Oops, I didn't see that Skinner already answered this. Sorry for the redundancy.