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Until you get into problems (legal or personal, doesn't matter) for "liking" stuff related to child porn, terrorist propaganda or, I don't know, scientology, wi

by pferde 8y ago

Until you get into problems (legal or personal, doesn't matter) for "liking" stuff related to child porn, terrorist propaganda or, I don't know, scientology, without even knowing about it, because it was done on your behalf by this "like automaton".

sacado2 8y ago
Exactly. In France people have been convicted because they "liked" illegal opinions. As if the fact that such a thing as an illegal opinion exists was not enough of a problem, it's been decided by justice that the semantic of a "like" was "I make this opinion mine".
- pferde 8y ago
  Can you please share some links on this? All I could find was a similar case in Thailand: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/10/thai-man-arrested-facebook-like-photo-king https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/10/thai-man-arres...
  - sacado2 8y ago
    I found that, but this is in French, obviously: http://www.leparisien.fr/rozay-en-brie-77540/rozay-en-brie-condamne-pour-avoir-like-une-photo-de-daesh-22-08-2017-7206846.php http://www.leparisien.fr/rozay-en-brie-77540/rozay-en-brie-c... My own (approximate) translation of parts of the text: "Sur Facebook, le trentenaire avait apposé un «J’aime» sur une image d’un combattant de Daesh brandissant la tête décapitée d’une femme. Il a été condamné à trois mois de prison avec sursis." --> "On Facebook, the man in his thirties had clicked "like" on a picture of an ISIS fighter holding the head of a beheaded woman. He was given a 3-month suspended prison sentence". "«Quand on met J’aime, c’est que l’on considère que ce n’est pas choquant ou que l’on adhère», considère pour sa part Jean-Baptiste Bougerol, le substitut du procureur de la République." --> ""When you click "like" on something, you consider it's not shocking or you agree with it"", said the prosecutor".
itronitron 8y ago
anything likable on Facebook shouldn't be illegal, or illegal to like

by pferde 8y ago

sacado2 8y ago

Exactly. In France people have been convicted because they "liked" illegal opinions. As if the fact that such a thing as an illegal opinion exists was not enough of a problem, it's been decided by justice that the semantic of a "like" was "I make this opinion mine".

pferde 8y ago
Can you please share some links on this? All I could find was a similar case in Thailand: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/10/thai-man-arrested-facebook-like-photo-king https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/10/thai-man-arres...
- sacado2 8y ago
  I found that, but this is in French, obviously: http://www.leparisien.fr/rozay-en-brie-77540/rozay-en-brie-condamne-pour-avoir-like-une-photo-de-daesh-22-08-2017-7206846.php http://www.leparisien.fr/rozay-en-brie-77540/rozay-en-brie-c... My own (approximate) translation of parts of the text: "Sur Facebook, le trentenaire avait apposé un «J’aime» sur une image d’un combattant de Daesh brandissant la tête décapitée d’une femme. Il a été condamné à trois mois de prison avec sursis." --> "On Facebook, the man in his thirties had clicked "like" on a picture of an ISIS fighter holding the head of a beheaded woman. He was given a 3-month suspended prison sentence". "«Quand on met J’aime, c’est que l’on considère que ce n’est pas choquant ou que l’on adhère», considère pour sa part Jean-Baptiste Bougerol, le substitut du procureur de la République." --> ""When you click "like" on something, you consider it's not shocking or you agree with it"", said the prosecutor".

itronitron 8y ago

anything likable on Facebook shouldn't be illegal, or illegal to like