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102 sats \ 3 replies \ @k00b 8 Aug \ on: The Government Is Not Your Friend - Shinobi, Bitcoin Magazine Politics_And_Law
We need to stop begging them for clauses and riders in bills. We need to take them to court. We need to stop kissing their ass and pandering to their egos and notion of public persona. We need to call them out as the two-faced spineless people they are.
Easy to say when you're primarily a critic and will never see a courtroom for speech ... because there is a clause in an ancient bill (gasp) that protects your right to it.
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100 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby OP 8 Aug
good point. why do you think the first amendment has been generally successful at protecting speech in the digital age, while the fourth amendment has not been so successful at protecting privacy?
(also it is really strange that one person can write words (opinion pieces) and feel entirely safe that they won't go to prison and another person can also write words (code) and be very much at risk of going to jail.)
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 8 Aug
privacy is more abstract and/or the people directing public opinion have less incentive to publicize violations of privacy
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @perscrutador 9 Aug
This does not protect anything and no right. You can say what you want, there is no right to that. This bill you mention is an order among the minions saying that "a slave can say whatever he wants and we are not going to arrest him for it".
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