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This is extremely common in Australia already. It is required when you check in through customs. I assume they'll use similar vendors.
by icelancer 8y ago
This is extremely common in Australia already. It is required when you check in through customs. I assume they'll use similar vendors.
- walterbell 8y agoDo Australians have the same laws and rights as Americans?
- AmericanChopper 8y agoNo country in the world has the same level of rights as America.
- fiblye 8y agoNot even remotely true. America is ahead of some countries in some aspects and behind in several others.
- kaybe 8y agoYou're not saying a different thing here.. even though the parent comment can be read to imply that America has the highest level, they didn't explicitly say so.. </nitpick>
- AmericanChopper 8y agoSorry, correction: The USA guarantees its citizens more rights and to a higher standard than any other country on earth.
- fiblye 8y agoMy original reply to you is just as relevant. This isn't true.
- AmericanChopper 8y agoIt absolutely is true. The US has the strongest free speech and freedom of association laws in the world. There is no country in the world that has anything that even comes close to the protection offered by the Bill of Rights. The copyright law Europe passed last week would require a constitutional amendment to be legal in the US.
- fiblye 8y agoAnd America doesn't protect an individual's right to privacy, unlike the EU and Japan which have strong legislation to protect individuals. And when it comes to protections from police, America is the absolute worst within what could be considered the first world. You can pick and choose rights that are important to you and say America is number one. Others can say America is positively lacking in other important aspects. It can easily be argued that America isn't even the best when it comes to protecting freedom of speech, and it's evident with how American-run tech corps police what's permitted on their sites to fit with American laws. Personally, I found America to be too constricting and the police state overwhelming, and I left for somewhere with more freedom. :)
- AmericanChopper 8y agoThe idea that an individual has a high expectation of privacy in public spaces is neither a right nor a freedom, it’s simply a restriction on what you’re legally allowed to do in public. It is freedom exchanged for safety. There is also no argument to be made at all when it comes to speech. America has by far the most extensive and thorough protections for expression and association in the world. Individuals in America also have much more protection from police interference than in any other country. The 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th amendments all protect individuals against malicious police actions and prosecutions. There is simply no other country that has anything remotely close to the Bill of Rights.
- hef19898 8y agoThat is a very American comment. I, as a European, really have to disagree completely. I have yet to see any cases in which anywhere in Europe free speech is limited. Or association, in fact there is party litterally called The Party that got elected last time around into the European Parliament. That party is an off-shoot of a German satirical magazine. And the last time a political party was prohibited in Germany was the communist party in the 50s.
- GW150914 8y agoI have to ask, how much time have you spent outside of the US?
- rgovostes 8y agoI think about this sometimes when I hear a friend talk about being ordered to tear down his treehouse, or notice my barber's cosmetology license by the mirror while he cuts my hair, or see a news story about a child's lemonade stand receiving a citation.
- AmericanChopper 8y agoIf you want to measure a persons rights, or lack thereof, by their interactions with regulations and bureaucracy, then it’s only fair to compare the US to other developed countries, where it would mostly compare quite favorably. The US would compare somewhat poorly to Hong Kong in terms of regulatory overhead for example, but Hong Kong only allows certain political parties to exist, so they’re clearly not going to be winning any civil liberties competitions. The US would potentially also compare quite poorly to many developing countries in this regard. But that’s because the mechanism that keeps regulation and bureaucracy in check in the developing world is rampant corruption and state sanctioned labor exploitation. Again, not something you’d want a respectable country to emulate.
- sneak 8y agoMany people believe that human rights are inherent to human beings and we are entitled to those rights in full as a result of our status as humans, not as a result of our birth in a certain place. Whenever you see a country providing citizens human rights and denying them to non-citizens, that country is morally bankrupt.
- tomp 8y agoAmericans also have a right to enter the US without being questioned or something similar. It doesn’t really seem logically considtent to assume that everyone should have the same rights (unless you completely abolish the idea of countries).