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Thats exactly the point. It's legislation that in practice leaves enough room to still be constitutional and democratically viable, but can be communicated in a
by krsdcbl 5y ago
Thats exactly the point. It's legislation that in practice leaves enough room to still be constitutional and democratically viable, but can be communicated in a way that deter people from documenting police
- eyelidlessness 5y agoCommonly referred to as a “chilling effect”: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilling_effect https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilling_effect
- HWR_14 5y agoIt's more devious than just the chilling effect. Police officers have a lot of leeway when the perform an action in good faith. If you make the law complex enough, then cops can enforce whatever they want and then just claim they were mistaken. Boom, instant legal immunity from civil action.
- adhesive_wombat 5y agoMeanwhile, for everyone else, ignorance of the law is explicitly not a defense. By the way, the law changes every few days, runs to tens of thousands of page and there's no real way it's communicated to you.
- naijaboiler 5y agoIt's amazingly ironic that in America, that the people tasked with enforcing the law with state-sanctioned violence and should be expected to know it, are the only people allowed to use ignorance of the law as a valid excuse to break the law. The rest of you plebs, tough luck. Didn't know. Still guilty, not a valid excus3