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Most people know prisoners can marry. Few remember the co-ed prison, the impromptu courthouse wedding and the Supreme Court ruling that allows them to do so.
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I was skeptical of unions. Then I joined one.
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The story of Sealand, a “micronation” on an eerie metal platform, tells us plenty about libertarianism, national sovereignty, and the lawlessness of the ocean
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Hungary’s far-right government vilifies Finland over rule of law inquiry
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An armed man who caused panic at a Walmart in Missouri says it was a 'social experiment'
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California man charged with murder even though he didn’t fire a shot
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Cigarette butts are toxic plastic pollution. Should they be banned?
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Meet Thomas Cullen, the Trump-appointed US Attorney who's putting white supremacists in jail using an anti-riot statute passed in the 1960s to rein in leftist Vietnam War protesters
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'Something needs to be done': A conversation about guns and race in America
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Lawyer argues that Humanists — who believe in good without a God — get short shrift in Nevada prisons
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Eskilstuna in Sweden launches controversial £21 begging permit
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New Zealand Abortion law to change in sweeping reform: "Abortion should be treated as a health issue"
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Bendigo mother becomes the first Victorian to use Voluntary Assisted Dying law
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Rammstein members kiss onstage in Russia to protest anti-LGBTQ laws
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Iceland cuts teen drinking with curfews and youth centers
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German officials are using the concept of universal jurisdiction to argue they can try anyone for war crimes committed anywhere
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The case for legal magic mushrooms
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In Lebanon, Palestinians protest new employment restrictions
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Small problem: An encounter with refugees and the legal system of Greece
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What's the community's opinion on "The Right to be Forgotten?"
This is kind of a question for Tildes as well as a discussion topic on Social Media more generally. For context, "The Right to be Forgotten" is an idea being kicked around in international law and...
This is kind of a question for Tildes as well as a discussion topic on Social Media more generally. For context, "The Right to be Forgotten" is an idea being kicked around in international law and human rights circles. It's kind of a corollary to the "right to privacy" and focuses on putting some guardrails around the downsides of having all information about you being archived, searchable, and publicly available forever and ever. It's usually phrased as a sense that people shouldn't be tied down indefinitely by stigmatizing actions they've done in "the past" (which is usually interpreted as long enough ago that you're not the same person anymore).
This manifests in some examples large and small. Felony convictions or drug offenses are a pretty big one. Another public issue was James Gunn getting raked over the coals for homophobic quotes from a long time ago. Even on a smaller scale, I think plenty of young people have some generalized anxiety about embarrassing videos, photos, Facebook statuses, forum posts, etc. that they made when they were young following them around the rest of their lives. For example, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez had people try to shame her for dancing to a Phoenix song in an amateur music video. An even darker version of this happens with people who might be the victims of targeted harassment. Often doxxing happens by people digging through peoples' histories and piecing together clues to figure out who they are or at least narrow down where they're from, where they work, etc.
In the context of Tildes, this would basically be a question of how do we feel about peoples' comment history lingering forever? Do we care about/agree with this "right" in principle and if we do, what should be done about putting it into practice?
The root of the issue is the existence of archives of data about yourself that is 1.) searchable, 2.) publicly viewable, 3.) under someone else's control, 4.) forever. Even if the ability to delete comments exists, it's infeasible for any individual to pore over the reams of data they create about themselves to find the stuff that might be problematic. The solutions would revolve around addressing any one of those numbered items. Unfortunately, hitting any of those has upsides and downsizes. Some examples:
Some people like being able to look back on old contributions and having them get deleted after a period of time (hitting problem #4) would be a bummer unless there is a system to selectively archive stuff you want to save from atrophy, which would be a function/feature that would take a ton of thought and development. What's more, there is no point in just saving your own comment if everyone else's stuff is gone because comments without context are indecipherable. It could work in a more selective way, so rather than a blanket atrophying of posts, but then you have the context issue again. Someone you were having a discussion with might choose to delete their entire comment history and there goes any sense of logic or coherence to your posts.
We could address the searchable bit by automatically or selectively having posts pseudonymed after a period of time. But in a lot of cases a pseudonym won't work. People tend to refer to each other by username at times, and some people have a distinctive enough style that you could probably figure it out if they're well known and long-tenured.
That's just some general food for thought. I'll yield the floor
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Breaking up is harder to do in Denmark after divorce law changes
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Thirteen years ago, a Montana rancher found two skeletons in combat – the Dueling Dinosaurs. But who do they belong to, and will the public ever see them?
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Honor-related crime could become a specific offence in Sweden
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Space law is inadequate for the boom in human activity there
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While cities are trying to reform their criminal-justice systems, smaller, more far-flung locales are struggling to provide basic legal services
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New York landlords call rent control laws an 'illegal taking' in new Federal lawsuit
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Microsoft 365, Google cloud and Apple cloud deemed illegal in Schools of Hesse
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Domestic workers have little legal protection. This bill could change that.
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Danish government will consider tabling a bill which would define sex without explicit consent as rape
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The most important Supreme Court cases of 2019 review
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Prenda Law porn-troll saga ends with prison for founder
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“I did not die. I did not go to heaven.”: How the controversy around a Christian bestseller engulfed the evangelical publishing industry—and tore a family apart.
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Americans shouldn’t have to drive, but the law insists on it
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'Protesters as terrorists': Growing number of states turn anti-pipeline activism into a crime
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New Zealand—one of three remaining developed countries without vehicle fuel emissions standards—proposes scheme to hike cost of gas guzzling vehicles in exchange for EV rebate
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Sweden's government wants to look into a ban on plastic cups and food containers
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Can animals commit crimes?
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The troubling business of bounty hunting
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Mississippi is forbidding grocery stores from calling veggie burgers “veggie burgers”
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Judge to review claims of US census citizenship question's 'discriminatory' origins
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The first socialist
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A ban on smoking in many public outdoor spaces in Sweden comes into effect on July 1st
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San Francisco bans sales of e-cigarettes
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Illinois becomes eleventh state to allow recreational marijuana
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Secrets and lies at Guantanamo Bay: Listening devices, FBI informants, and gag orders… these are just some of the ways that the US is mishandling classified information in the Al Qaeda trials
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New York is sixth state to outlaw gay and trans 'panic defenses'
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There’s a Legal Loophole That May Leave Some of Rock’s Greatest Riffs Up for Grabs
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Canada passes Bill C-68, overhauling the Fisheries Act and banning import and export of shark fins
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Hackers, farmers, and doctors unite! Support for right to repair laws slowly grows
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