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That's pretty much every protest ever. You would make organizing protests against marijuana laws or laws against homosexual behavior illegal? Moxie Marlinspike
by SyzygistSix 5y ago
That's pretty much every protest ever. You would make organizing protests against marijuana laws or laws against homosexual behavior illegal?
Moxie Marlinspike has argued that it is important to be able to break the law and that perfect surveillance means the end of making social progress in a civil manner.
https://www.metafilter.com/161351/I-think-it-should-actually-be-possible-to-break-the-law https://www.metafilter.com/161351/I-think-it-should-actually...
- ben_w 5y agoAs the law recognises that the law can be changed, protesting to change the law is not generally itself a crime. Laws get interpreted by humans, not by computers, so they should not to be taken literally and in isolation — they’re both harder and laxer in different ways.
- WindyLakeReturn 5y agoIn some cases changing the law is itself illegal, which brings us back to the original question. There is also the matter of protecting a persons right to commit a crime when it involves behaviors that should not be criminalized. A same sex couple being in a relationship is something that we should protest for, even if it is illegal. Not just making it legal, but also protesting specific examples of it being criminalized. Is free speech itself something worth protecting enough that we should give it some level of special protection? In a world where the only person who doesn't have to know the law is the cops enforcing it, who are given their own special protection from harm they cause, I don't think it is an unreasonable request.