Posts by Keir Leslie
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If you read the Law Commission report, you'll see they talk about this quite thoughtfully.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Impermanence, in reply to Russell Brown,
It takes itself a tad too seriously?
Hahaha yeah, Big Bang's self-absorbed, imperialistic singles were never going to be the easiest sell to people not already bound up in it.
But yeah, like, does K-Pop have to be self-mocking to be successful in the West? (Not that Psy is, but you know what I mean.)
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Psy, apparently, is notoriously hard-partying.
Something interesting about why Psy was the break out hit, but say, this not so much.
Whole idea of breaking into the US market pretty fascinating.
Also the extent to which K Pop is this pulsating artificial fakery, Phil Oakley and Gary Numan and all that.
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Hard News: Media3: Where harm might fall, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
So this proposed change doesn't make a fig of difference either way then.
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Apart from anything else, this law will be read consistently with the Bill of Rights Act. I dunno, the more people argue against it, the more I feel I am for it.
Written supreme constitutions merely shift the argument to a pseudo-judicial forum. No real benefit.
Stephen: yeah, I agree that it's often necessary to be a dick. But I think your right to be a dick is pretty safe.
(Edited to add: one way is to think of this as making it less likely that people will go to court over stuff said on the internet by offering an alternative resolution method. )
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I have to say, I have difficulty with the idea that District Court judges exercising powers they already mostly have the right to exercise are a threat to free speech on the internet.
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Just pointing to sections of the Crimes Act that cover behaviour and saying that because there’s an existing criminal/civil remedy is not, I think, particularly fatal to the Law Commission’s reasoning. (Even pointing to convictions.)
The argument they are making is that prosecutions are currently possible but too hard, I think.
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Also pretty much everything Giovanni Tiso's ever written.
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You know I am sure that no party ever says "oh we're going to be sell-outs and disgraces once we get in office". But they almost all do.
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The fact it is so confined is an argument against a law change: bills of attainder are even more repugnant.