Posts by Keir Leslie
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Legal Beagle: The hopeful disallowance…, in reply to Matthew Poole,
In general, any statement of the form "x is a bad thing and x happens in the US criminal justice system" is true.
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Legal Beagle: The hopeful disallowance…, in reply to Matthew Poole,
Yeah, I agree that there’s heaps and heaps of downside risk from sexting. I just don’t think that in NZ, if you’re between 16-18 and engaged in consensual exchange of vanilla pics, one of those downside risks is prosecution or conviction. My research on this consists of not much at all, so if someone has any actual authority one way or the other I’d be easily convinced I’m wrong.
[Also yes the lack of a registry is one reason I am suspicious of that assertion. To be fair Moz is from Australia, now I look, so I’m being a bit devious in my restatement.]
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I think that talking about “behaviour” is massively under-interrogating the various ways online actions are mediated by corporate power with explicit interests in exploiting personal information.
(Also I am quite suspicious of the assertion that sexting is a crime automatically leading to sex offender registration under NZ law – is there authority for that?)
(Also also while we're on an open data kick, here's Crooked Timber's open data seminar. It's really really good. Really good.
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Legal Beagle: The hopeful disallowance…, in reply to Moz,
Again, I don't think argument-from-Daily-Mail is exactly the best way of establishing a broad social consensus for renegotiating privacy and openness.
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I think the idea that the public is on board with radical openness / lack of privacy (however you want to put it) is pretty far ahead of the facts.
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Also paywalls.
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In the long run, won't this just lead to ads that aren't easily mechanically distinguishable from content?
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Hard News: The mathematics of marriage, in reply to Moz,
Also this -- " legally you are only one of male/female, married to only one of male/female " -- is inaccurate. At clause 5 the Bill states: “marriage means the union of 2 people, regardless of their sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity”.
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Hard News: The mathematics of marriage, in reply to Moz,
Because, for instance, you can still be bisexual and married as a man to a man without subsuming your identity into a gay identity.
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Hard News: The mathematics of marriage, in reply to Coley Tangerina,
Note the weird reference to Herceptin in there. Also, did you know naked jogging is destroying our moral fabric?