Years in the making, the federal government is poised to introduce a new piece of legislation on Monday aimed at addressing a series of online harms.

    • Victor Villas
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      That wouldn’t make sense, but even if that was not a joke, it would be out of scope. The legislation is likely to focus on requiring platforms to moderate content more strongly; plus maybe penalties for cyberbullying, deepfakes and such.

      Being insensitive online is unlikely to ever become a crime, let alone something that can prosecuted retroactively.

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        There’s a law, possibly international/UN or something, against making laws that retroactively criminalize stuff, so you’re right, on that point.

        Pretending that such things won’t ever become a crime, however, when the US is at the point of criminalizing

        • miscarriage
        • some brain-wirings/genders
        • violating christofascist supremacism
        • not being a Trump-cult member

        as the next few years will demonstrate,

        is naive/incompetent.

        Yes, criminal-law is going to be used to enforce ideological-conforming, throughout much of the West, exactly as China, Israel, Russia, etc, now “use”/abuse law.

        That tipping-point has already been crossed, on this world.

        • Victor Villas
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          19 months ago

          All your examples indicate that if anything, having an actual black face is riskier than doing blackface in the long term.

    • @[email protected]
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      49 months ago

      You used ellipses instead of a question mark. Will you be held accountable for the harm you’ve inflicted?

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      If he makes new ones in the future that would be possible if they could be shown to cause harm, but you don’t actually get to retroactively charge somebody for something over a decade ago that wasn’t a crime then.

      Speaking of over a decade ago, maybe you should move on eh?

        • @[email protected]
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          19 months ago

          It’s not about the politician, it’s about the pulling out crap that happened decades ago before he even was one.

          Seriously, get a new schtick, it’s not like there’s a leak is current issues to pissed at JT (or as you say, other politicians) about.