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> Write down all the rules for number plates and someone will find a way to write an offensive one, or language will change and the policy won't have caught up.
by behnamoh 1y ago
> Write down all the rules for number plates and someone will find a way to write an offensive one, or language will change and the policy won't have caught up. You need human subjectivity in the loop as a check.
That's not what I meant with subjectivity. I want objective rules, like "license place should be 6 alphanumeric letters".
as soon as you say "it shouldn't be offensive to the average citizen", you're in the subjectivity realm.
- danpalmer 1y agoOk, but you'd agree that we shouldn't allow, say, an offensive word for a specific race to be used right? Because that would be actively harmful to many people. So we make a rule saying "you can't use word X". So someone submits a plate that is X but... with a number replacing a letter. It's not against the rules, but it's still actively harmful because a human subjectively reads it as the banned word. So you expand the rule, but then language changes, etc etc. Surely you need to have a subjective judgement process because the interpretation/harm is subjective? I'll grant you that finding the right balance here, or where the line is, is a hard problem. This list to me however shows that it can be achieved in a reasonable way. Alternatively if you think that people should be allowed to use widely recognised, highly derogatory words for other people as number plates, that rules like being 6 characters is strictly sufficient, then I think we disagree too much to resolve.