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Tough question, but why not?
by chinathrow 11y ago
Tough question, but why not?
- Goronmon 11y agoFreedom of speech.
- ghaff 11y agoLeaving aside implementation practicalities (i.e. the great difficulty of putting the genie/information back in the bottle), it boils down to where someone balances an individual right to privacy relative to the right of other individuals/organizations to say/write whatever they want modulo rather narrow constraints (in the US).As a philosophical matter, I'm not sure there's a right answer and the corner cases are always going to be hard. (e.g. the availability of photos of drunken teenager antics do not exactly contribute to public knowledge/culture/etc. but can potentially be quite harmful for the person in question).