As said here, the police should not be held to lower standards of self-control than the general population because they're the supposedly "good guy". They should be held to higher standards because of the authority they are given.
Hopefully, judges will come to that conclusion over time.
Response to: Anonymous Coward on Apr 5th, 2017 @ 6:32pm
There is an explicit threat of (ab)using ContentID. That might not be much to you, but it was supposed to be system put in place to fight copyright violations without tribunals.
We here know that it's been abused way beyond actual copyright violations, but that didn't make it "right".
Universal Declaration of Human Rights: "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights."
Although not a direct legally binding document, it states explicit that "all humans" are equal in rights. If you start carving exceptions for your own citizens, you might as well admit that you don't consider foreigners as human.
Response to: Anonymous Coward on Apr 4th, 2017 @ 4:53pm
Actually, someone here made a joke about how we should stop talking about "encrypting our communications" and start saying "protecting our communications with DRM" so that politicians will want to help us.
Good article, though lacking emphasis on another large and common flaw in such attempts: who decides what is a porn site, and how is that list maintained and supervised?
Such attempts are typically abused, with several political opponents' sites "mistakenly" ending up in the list.
Probably malice. There is a name to that technique, but I don't remember it right now.
The idea is to propose something outrageous, let it get denied, then propose something... less outrageous and present it as a compromise. It's still bad, and it would have been rejected outright if presented directly, but it now appears "acceptable" in comparison to the first offer.
Proper anti-SLAPP laws are as close as you currently get to that.
Actual "cost-free" would require access to Justice in general to be free/subsidized in a way that actual merit (and not level of funding) will allow anyone to win without wasting his time.
And that should be true for both plaintiff and defendant alike: you shouldn't need unlimited funding to win (and survive) a case that someone brought against you without merit; but you should also be able to sue anyone with merit even if you're way poorer than the one who did you wrong. (eg. companies or government branches)
The current system is only fair (then again, only to an extent) when plaintiff and defendant are on roughly equal financial grounds. In any other cases, some measure of extra force is needed to level the scales. (For example, making your case famous and sympathetic to the masses.)
I would have found it hilarious is Ajit Pai actually had the guts to reply: "where should I start? I have trouble finding even one place where it's at least nearly right."
He starts with "Let's say a group of neighbors", and that's a pretty bad start. It goes downhill after that.
So, spend years learning that vigilantism and personal revenge is bad. Trust the justice system. Then, learn that all the moral lessons you've learned about real life don't apply on the Internet, because... reasons?
Given PayPal's reaction here, you just need to act yourself: send one dollar to each senator and MP you know. That will flag both your and their accounts, so they can't receive any new contribution. (Use burner accounts yourself.)
The political reaction will surely be pretty quick.
The reason people call you troll is because you come back everytime with the same flawed logic and downright fallacies that were pointed out over and over again. And each time it's denounced, your reaction is to repeat your flawed arguments, as if repetition would turn them valid somehow, or obnoxiously tell others that they are wrong because you're so "obviously" right.
Most of us here enjoy proper debate. At least when it's based on logic and proof, not on faith.
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Re: New Australia
They should be held to higher standards because of the authority they are given.
Hopefully, judges will come to that conclusion over time.
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Response to: Anonymous Coward on Apr 5th, 2017 @ 6:32pm
We here know that it's been abused way beyond actual copyright violations, but that didn't make it "right".
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Although not a direct legally binding document, it states explicit that "all humans" are equal in rights.
If you start carving exceptions for your own citizens, you might as well admit that you don't consider foreigners as human.
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I can imagine the situation there: "sir, do you allow us to shoot you with an armed drone?"
"And there's no warrant in existence that grants police the license to kill -- only to apprehend."
No need for a warrant when you know that no judge will find a cop guilty of murder.
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Response to: Anonymous Coward on Apr 4th, 2017 @ 4:53pm
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why?
Well yes, I can.
But why would I inflict that on myself?
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... And in the database bind then.
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When there's a trust issue, the problem so obviously comes from the person being lied to. /s
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Such attempts are typically abused, with several political opponents' sites "mistakenly" ending up in the list.
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So, according to him, it will be forever impossible to create an oversight commission because any such entity would be created after the EO 12333.
How serious can that argument be? Or is he just trolling?
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Answer: 0
No american is innocent. Everyone is guilty.
The job of the NSA is to find what they're guilty of.
/s (for those who have a broken sarcasm detector)
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Re: Re: Why
The idea is to propose something outrageous, let it get denied, then propose something... less outrageous and present it as a compromise.
It's still bad, and it would have been rejected outright if presented directly, but it now appears "acceptable" in comparison to the first offer.
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Actual "cost-free" would require access to Justice in general to be free/subsidized in a way that actual merit (and not level of funding) will allow anyone to win without wasting his time.
And that should be true for both plaintiff and defendant alike: you shouldn't need unlimited funding to win (and survive) a case that someone brought against you without merit; but you should also be able to sue anyone with merit even if you're way poorer than the one who did you wrong. (eg. companies or government branches)
The current system is only fair (then again, only to an extent) when plaintiff and defendant are on roughly equal financial grounds. In any other cases, some measure of extra force is needed to level the scales. (For example, making your case famous and sympathetic to the masses.)
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The guy was not arrested because he was black.
He was arrested because he was male.
Even assuming the IP was right, with every trace pointing at his partner's connection, why was he the (only) one whose life was ruined?
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I would have found it hilarious is Ajit Pai actually had the guts to reply: "where should I start? I have trouble finding even one place where it's at least nearly right."
He starts with "Let's say a group of neighbors", and that's a pretty bad start. It goes downhill after that.
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Re: Re: AR&R
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Then, learn that all the moral lessons you've learned about real life don't apply on the Internet, because... reasons?
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Re: Easy Solution
The political reaction will surely be pretty quick.
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... or he can prove that the car has never been used to transport drugs. Or drug money.
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Re: Re: Re:
Most of us here enjoy proper debate. At least when it's based on logic and proof, not on faith.
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