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> "I can easily see a situation arising where, for example, a young woman walking to a shop films a police officer holding his knee on a man’s neck, and a regul
by dane-pgp 5y ago
> "I can easily see a situation arising where, for example, a young woman walking to a shop films a police officer holding his knee on a man’s neck, and a regulator, under government pressure, orders that video to be pulled off social media sites on the grounds that the young woman was not an accredited journalist, and that the violent video constitutes subjectively harmful content."
My worry is not that the government is unaware of this potential consequence of its regulations, but that it is fully aware and has designed the regulations to make these outcomes more likely.