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2363d · Racism
have an issue with things that are technically laws but are not enforced. it creates a situation where anyone can be arrested at any time for anything.
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This is what I also take issue with, and I really dislike when people say "It is illegal, but nobody will actually be convicted of it" but what happens it that the law is used indrectl
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truth
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y to get the foot in the door or to have plausible cause for searches. The same with setting the maximum time frame of a law just over the limit where reasonable suspicion warrants sea
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rches that would otherwise not be granted if the actual prison time (not the max) was the limiting factor. It is of course done because it is effective at doing what it aims to.
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The stupidest example form a law where I live is that if you visit a web page, you can be tried for having visited all the links on that domain - even if you did not. Because -
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they only collect the top-level domain and then infer that you could have read all of it on the page, so you are legally responsible for having read it all.
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damn thats terrible. Govs a having the most difficult time trying to adapt ancient laws to modern/internet life. always over reaching and always ham-fisted.
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There is also some modern day linguistic acrobatics mixed in there, where there is no distinction between what is real and fiction, it all falls under material, so a person that has -
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X amount of criminal material, you do not know if it is actual or fictional, or if it fits an alternative definition that is not commonly understood by people. The intention behind it-
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- does not matter, the context does not matter, and in countries like Sweden even being an actual artist with an recognized art exhibition does not except you from committing artistic-
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- crimes. So far Dan Park (artist) has been jailed for six months and the gallery fined, because the art was not to the states liking, and they interpreted the art to be endorsement-
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- instead of critique/satire of racism. That is some short sighted shit, and it is indicative of a shift towards ways of thinking related to political correctness in the law.
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damn thanks, as usual gov also doesn't understand Streisand effect either. wouldn't have heard of him if he hadn't been arrested.
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(Last note: Even the Gallery got fined, looks like art galleries may want to err on the side of caution when they set up art galleries, don't want the art to change minds after all).


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