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> I'm less interested in whether arrest records are public than I am in whether they are publishable in online newspapers I think "this is 'public' information
by mlyle 2y ago
> I'm less interested in whether arrest records are public than I am in whether they are publishable in online newspapers
I think "this is 'public' information that you can't publish" is a yucky slippery slope.
- lolinder 2y agoI think that if we can't define a category like that then the next century is going to be pretty awful in a lot of ways. If "public" automatically means "accessible instantly from anywhere in the world and irreparably archived forever", then we're either going to have to have a lot of stuff pulled from the public space or we're going to have a lot of lives ruined by all kinds of "public" stuff.
- MichaelZuo 2y agoWhy does it matter? There are no preordained guarantees that any specific things will be or not be in the “public space”.