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Can't read legalese much, and -judging by how these things tend to go- I bet it's butchered beyond recognition before it gets to a vote (if at all). Instead, we
by gigel82 4y ago
Can't read legalese much, and -judging by how these things tend to go- I bet it's butchered beyond recognition before it gets to a vote (if at all). Instead, we should consider a constitutional amendment that enshrines digital privacy as a fundamental human right.
- lolinder 4y agoWhy would a constitutional amendment be less prone to getting butchered beyond all recognition? An amendment may not have its text butchered, but there's no guarantee at all that it will be interpreted the way you hope.
- seanw444 4y agoIt probably will be interpreted in all the wrong ways you can't even anticipate. All you need for an example is 2A.
- micromacrofoot 4y agowe don't even have food and shelter as a human right
- carom 4y agoWe do have food in a sense. I began cooking for the homeless and quickly learned they all had EBT cards and didn't want my bland cooking.
- micromacrofoot 4y agothe comment I was responding to was specifically referencing rights as outlined by the constitution
- matai_kolila 4y agoFor any enterprising young legal authors, I'm sure a "rewritten for laypeople" paragraph-by-paragraph blog post would garner a large volume of views and impressions to your site...
- cvoss 4y ago> Instead No way. The threshold of consensus required to put a constitutional amendment through is far higher than that of passing a bill (maybe too high, but that's another conversation). The fact that such an ammendment would consist of terse, high-level, abstract statements rather than pages and pages concrete specifics would also make it harder to achieve consensus because too many people would be afraid of it getting read by SCOTUS in a way they didn't want. We need to work on federal laws here and not wait for a pie-in-the-sky constitutional ammendment. (State-by-state laws don't make a whole lot of sense on this topic. Glad CA has been test-driving some, but we need a unified approach.).
- legitster 4y ago> digital privacy as a fundamental human right Why would digital privacy be a fundamental human right before normal privacy?
- encryptluks2 4y agoYou do realize that you can waive your constitutional rights like a jury trial, and that these companies would just make that part of their standard terms of service... Right?