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Fascinating that my old phone books could become contraband worth thousands of years of jail time! Starting to feel I'm entering the life phase where you think
by BurningFrog 2y ago
Fascinating that my old phone books could become contraband worth thousands of years of jail time!
Starting to feel I'm entering the life phase where you think the world has gone mad. Happens to most of us, why would I be immune?
- AStonesThrow 2y agoPhone books were sanitized. City directories would list occupations and they would be by area/address, so you could find neighbors. Also, newspapers would report on the doings of ordinary people, not just the society pages, e.g. "John Smith was in town today from Peoria, visiting friends for three days."
- AsmaraHolding 2y agoIn UK reporting it's still normal to include the street name of convicted criminals. Mr Smith of Agraria Road Guildford was today sentenced to 3 years in prison for...
- hiddencost 2y agoWhat a profoundly dishonest comparison. There has to be an attached harm and apparent intent.
- dugite-code 2y ago"malicious" is the key word here. It's a common distinction used in many Australian laws meaning if you are prosecuted they need to build a case that you were not doing so for a legitimate useful reason like a phone book and knew it would cause harm. A unsurprisingly difficult task. This also gives you a fairly robust method of defence against any frivolous prosecution.