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Targeted harassment of minorities sounds like a crime to me. Shouldn't the police be investigating and prosecuting this crime instead of some random internet CD

Targeted harassment of minorities sounds like a crime to me. Shouldn't the police be investigating and prosecuting this crime instead of some random internet CDN company?

banannaise 4y ago
Yeah, they really should! And the fact that they are not and never do implies that perhaps we should be looking into alternative solutions to the problem!
- leesalminen 4y ago
  I agree. If harassment laws haven’t been updated to better reflect the digital age, then folks should be demanding their lawmakers to do their job and change the law. And, you know, enforce it. That is the purpose of the Executive branch of government (in the US, at least). The current flavor of exerting social pressure on companies to, in effect, enforce their version of what the law should be, won’t end well for anyone. What’s righteous today will become the evil of tomorrow. Political winds shift all the time. We shouldn’t box ourselves into a corner where corporations enforce the rule of the people. There’s a threshold that once reached will be very hard to undo. I certainly don’t want to live in that version of the future. We should all be working to fix the broken system we’ve got, not throw it away and start from scratch.
  - banannaise 4y ago
    Oh, the harassment laws are perfectly up to date. The problem is that we then have to rely on... 1. that being the case literally everywhere; otherwise, it's just a matter of moving the harassment sources to a friendly jurisdiction 2. the police to enforce them, although the police are known to often be complicit in similar conduct (harassment of minorities) 3. this enforcement to actually cause positive changes in people's behavior, which, given the current state of the US "criminal justice" system, won't happen The legal system is ill-equipped to handle this not because of a lack of laws, but because the legal system is full of humans who often don't treat the safety of vulnerable people as a priority.
- userabchn 4y ago
  Blasphemy is a crime in many countries. Let's burn all of the books and block all of the websites that are guilty of it (without going through courts because that is too slow) so that the people, who we do not trust to make judgements for themselves, are not exposed to it!
  - banannaise 4y ago
    The fact that a tool can be used immorally does not make all uses of the tool immoral.
- josephcsible 4y ago
  If you own a store somewhere that shoplifting doesn't get prosecuted, should you look into alternative solutions like kidnapping the shoplifters and locking them in your basement?
throwayyy479087 4y ago
It is not in the US

Targeted harassment of minorities sounds like a crime to me. Shouldn't the police be investigating and prosecuting this crime instead of some random internet CDN company?

banannaise 4y ago

Yeah, they really should! And the fact that they are not and never do implies that perhaps we should be looking into alternative solutions to the problem!

leesalminen 4y ago
I agree. If harassment laws haven’t been updated to better reflect the digital age, then folks should be demanding their lawmakers to do their job and change the law. And, you know, enforce it. That is the purpose of the Executive branch of government (in the US, at least). The current flavor of exerting social pressure on companies to, in effect, enforce their version of what the law should be, won’t end well for anyone. What’s righteous today will become the evil of tomorrow. Political winds shift all the time. We shouldn’t box ourselves into a corner where corporations enforce the rule of the people. There’s a threshold that once reached will be very hard to undo. I certainly don’t want to live in that version of the future. We should all be working to fix the broken system we’ve got, not throw it away and start from scratch.
- banannaise 4y ago
  Oh, the harassment laws are perfectly up to date. The problem is that we then have to rely on... 1. that being the case literally everywhere; otherwise, it's just a matter of moving the harassment sources to a friendly jurisdiction 2. the police to enforce them, although the police are known to often be complicit in similar conduct (harassment of minorities) 3. this enforcement to actually cause positive changes in people's behavior, which, given the current state of the US "criminal justice" system, won't happen The legal system is ill-equipped to handle this not because of a lack of laws, but because the legal system is full of humans who often don't treat the safety of vulnerable people as a priority.
userabchn 4y ago
Blasphemy is a crime in many countries. Let's burn all of the books and block all of the websites that are guilty of it (without going through courts because that is too slow) so that the people, who we do not trust to make judgements for themselves, are not exposed to it!
- banannaise 4y ago
  The fact that a tool can be used immorally does not make all uses of the tool immoral.
josephcsible 4y ago
If you own a store somewhere that shoplifting doesn't get prosecuted, should you look into alternative solutions like kidnapping the shoplifters and locking them in your basement?

throwayyy479087 4y ago

It is not in the US