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One of the group’s model bills, “The Animal and Ecological Terrorism Act,” prohibits filming or taking pictures on livestock farms to “defame the facility or it
by scarmig 14y ago
One of the group’s model bills, “The Animal and Ecological Terrorism Act,” prohibits filming or taking pictures on livestock farms to “defame the facility or its owner.” Violators would be placed on a “terrorist registry.”
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Seriously, this would be hilarious if it weren't so malevolent and deranged.
Can't record interactions with cops, can't published leaked information despite being under no formal legal obligations not to, can't bring lawsuits if a judge can find any fig leaf to say you lack standing. And now this.
- greenyoda 14y agoSo now filming livestock is "terrorism". Maybe soon copyright violations will be considered terrorism too?
- nobodyshere 14y agoJudging by fines and jail times they already are.
- aegiso 14y agoAaron Schwartz?
- nobodyshere 14y agoThey wanted to make an example. They made one. But not the one they intended to.
- aspensmonster 14y ago>Violators would be placed on a "terrorist registry." They've already pulled it off with the ELF. Why stop at the radical environmentalists when you can manage to take down a meat packer with a hidden video camera too? The ELF's arson spree was wrong, but labeling it "terrorism" was an insult to terrorists everywhere. This isn't even an insult. It's just insanity.
- thisone 14y agowasn't the point of the arson to terrorize people into doing what ELF wanted? From what I remember, the arson wasn't committed by just some twisted fire starter.
- vacri 14y agoArson to further a political goal is terrorism. Exposure of existing practises is not terrorism.
- pekk 14y agoThe problem is that the meaning of the word "terrorism" is stretched over too far a scope, from things that a gang might do to full-blown acts of war like 9/11.
- pattisapu 14y agoIf "defamation" is the key here, at least truth is a complete defense to defamation.