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Are you saying that every crime punishment should automatically include loss of privacy? Cause that's what your statement sounds like.
by heliodor 3y ago
Are you saying that every crime punishment should automatically include loss of privacy? Cause that's what your statement sounds like.
- omginternets 3y agoThat's a very bizarre reading of this thread of conversation.
- heliodor 3y agoI didn't read it well, I guess. "Protecting people's public image" sounds much broader than whether an arrest or conviction is public record.
- AnimalMuppet 3y agoEvery crime conviction is a public record, so that ship has sailed.
- themaninthedark 3y agoI would say that we want to know what crimes our government is convicting people of. Otherwise, you can have the government arrest and convict some one of "secret" charges, perhaps in "secret" courts with "secret" evidence. The convicted just disappeared. I think we had something like that happen before, it caused a bit of upset.
- AniseAbyss 3y ago[dead]
- tick_tock_tick 3y agoI mean pretty much that's a cornerstone of our legal system. There's a strong bias against hidden courts where someone may be convicted in secret and punished in secret.
- ddingus 3y agoThat is all a matter of public record. Anyone who doesn't want that can file a motion to have it concealed.