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> Well then, unless your actual name is "tjic" then we are both criminals right off the bat. Under US law, there is no such thing as a sole "actual" name. Any

by tjic 18y ago

> Well then, unless your actual name is "tjic" then we are both criminals right off the bat. Under US law, there is no such thing as a sole "actual" name. Any name that you use for non-fraudulent purposes is a legitimate name. TJIC is my initials: Travis James Ignatius Corcoran. I have been using it as a legitimate name for 15 years. My mom addresses emails and letters to me using that name. So, no, I'm not a criminal. ...but if someone signed up for an account at Amazon using 500 different names, and one of them was "TJIC", and the intent was to inject bad data ... yes, that person would be a criminal.

sho 18y ago
Cool name! : ) "but if someone signed up for an account at Amazon using 500 different names, and one of them was "TJIC", and the intent was to inject bad data ... yes, that person would be a criminal." No way. Guaranteeing the integrity of Amazon's Customer Review data is not the job of the state. Guaranteeing the legitimacy of the name(s) used to sign up for accounts is not the job of the state. Assessing the state of mind of someone filling in Amazon's complaints form is not the job of the state. I am kind of amazed you think the government or the law should be even tangentially involved in any of this.
- tjic 18y ago
  > No way. Guaranteeing the integrity of Amazon's Customer Review data is not the job of the state According to many theories, much of the point of the state is to lower transaction costs. That's why states get involved in things like creating default rental agreements, setting up standards of weight and measure, inspecting pumps at gas stations, stamping out ponzi schemes, running courts to enforce slander laws (even when the target is a corporation), etc. I'm a pretty extreme libertarian. I'd like 99% of the government to go away. Maybe more. ...but I'm going to assume that we're holding this debate in the real world, not in a science-fictional Heinlein-esque anarcho-capitalist moon colony. ...and if that's the case, then 99.9% of people think the job of the state DOES include stopping people from intentionally gumming up third party transactions.

by tjic 18y ago

sho 18y ago

Cool name! : ) "but if someone signed up for an account at Amazon using 500 different names, and one of them was "TJIC", and the intent was to inject bad data ... yes, that person would be a criminal." No way. Guaranteeing the integrity of Amazon's Customer Review data is not the job of the state. Guaranteeing the legitimacy of the name(s) used to sign up for accounts is not the job of the state. Assessing the state of mind of someone filling in Amazon's complaints form is not the job of the state. I am kind of amazed you think the government or the law should be even tangentially involved in any of this.

tjic 18y ago
> No way. Guaranteeing the integrity of Amazon's Customer Review data is not the job of the state According to many theories, much of the point of the state is to lower transaction costs. That's why states get involved in things like creating default rental agreements, setting up standards of weight and measure, inspecting pumps at gas stations, stamping out ponzi schemes, running courts to enforce slander laws (even when the target is a corporation), etc. I'm a pretty extreme libertarian. I'd like 99% of the government to go away. Maybe more. ...but I'm going to assume that we're holding this debate in the real world, not in a science-fictional Heinlein-esque anarcho-capitalist moon colony. ...and if that's the case, then 99.9% of people think the job of the state DOES include stopping people from intentionally gumming up third party transactions.