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There is no definite point, but usually names are usually kept secret until conviction. For people of public interest (e.g. pro soccer player) names can be publ
by qznc 9y ago
There is no definite point, but usually names are usually kept secret until conviction. For people of public interest (e.g. pro soccer player) names can be published earlier. For juvenile criminals names can be made secret even after conviction (including e.g. Google data).
Germany seems to balance personal rights and freedom of press differently, giving more weight to the former.
Coincidentally, the german Grundgesetz starts "Human dignity is inviolable", while the Bill of Rights starts "Congress shall make no law [...religion...] abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press".
- jacquesm 9y agoIf the press would be a bit more aware of/sensitive to the damage they are doing to people's lives rather than to chase the money that would be a great thing. For now though the press can hide behind their freedoms in order to gleefully ruin people's lives with abandon. Good solutions to any problem require consideration of interests, 'unlimited' does harm as well as good and such lack of balance is hard to deal with when you're on the receiving end of it (say as the victim of a false accusation or a crime that eventually leads to acquittal). Also, those freedoms without limits were made long before the Internet and Google came along and those are game changers. Not to be able to adjust to changing times is a bad thing for any legal system.
- qznc 9y agoIt seems that consumers will not punish the press (enough) for transgressions like this. It seems reasonable that law steps in. I'm quite happy how Germany handles it.