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> that an investigation itself can be damaging This is the main part. It's extrajudicial punishment. TONS of governments engage in this behavior. This is why
by burtonator 7y ago
> that an investigation itself can be damaging
This is the main part. It's extrajudicial punishment.
TONS of governments engage in this behavior. This is why MJ as illegal for so long. It allowed the US to imprison 1M more minorities since the 80s.
- notafraudster 7y agoI agree with the principle of your point re: marijuana in specific -- it was often used as a way to stack charges, and especially in a racialized way. But I'm not sure it applies here. Clearly if the US is investigating a serious computer crime that came from your server, they can't take it on your say-so that it actually came from somewhere else. They need to be able to investigate. And typically for forensic reasons that's going to involve an infrastructure seizure. Now, the failure to return infrastructure over a long period of time is more extrajudicial punishment, and they do that too sometimes. Lots of people haven't gotten laptops back for years via this.
- tgsovlerkhgsel 7y agoPublicizing unproven charges, and allowing "mugshot extortion"-style web sites to operate, is a large part of this. In many other countries, crime reporting has to happen in an anonymized way until conviction.