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Interesting idea. Another approach could be an "I'm Spartacus" strategy: a site with a one-click tool to automatically "hack" some willing participant, and then
by lukifer 14y ago
Interesting idea. Another approach could be an "I'm Spartacus" strategy: a site with a one-click tool to automatically "hack" some willing participant, and then daring prosecutors to try to charge thousands of end users at once.
In reality, though, either strategy misses the grander problem, which is not about the letter of the law, but about selective prosecution that dehumanizes arbitrary victims for the purposes of career advancement, personal grudges, and maintaining bureaucratic budgets.
- DanBC 14y agoThere's a famous libel scandal in the UK. An unnamed politician was wrongly linked to a paedophile sex scandal. Twitter users named that man, and called him a paedophile. (He isn't!) Many thousands of people repeated this slander. Lord McAlpine was potentially going to sue 10,000 people. (http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2012/11/22/mcalpine-forces-twitter-to-come-of-age/ http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2012/11/22/mcalpine-forces-...)