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On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 8:55 AM, Ciaran McCreesh |
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<ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Sun, 26 Apr 2015 00:47:46 +0000 |
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> "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o> wrote: |
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>> Gentoo should ALSO care if it comes to light that individuals with |
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>> past history of incidents are participating in the community. Eg: |
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>> [1b] |
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>> [1b] http://crystalbeasley.com/2015/02/04/I-stand-against-kveton/ |
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> In some jurisdictions that comment could be considered libellous, |
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> due to the lack of court conviction... If you were served with a |
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> libel lawsuit in, say, the UK over that comment, would you be expected |
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> to cease participating in Gentoo? |
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Setting the issue itself aside, this is why I hate the |
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tort-is-an-answer-to-everything approach that seems to rule these days |
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(especially among many libertarian folks that I often agree with |
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otherwise). You end up with orgs who can't decide whether they should |
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burn people at the stake so that they aren't sued in one jurisdiction, |
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or whether they should ignore potential offenders so that they aren't |
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sued in some other jurisdiction. |
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It is one big passive-aggressive culture war where rather than sit |
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down and try to talk about issues and treat each other as human |
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beings, we instead demonize anybody who disagrees with our point of |
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view. We turn people into nothing more than votes on issues upon |
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which we stake everything. I've seen people on all sides of just |
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about any issue making horrible personal attacks on advocates of |
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opposing views. |
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Once upon a time we put offenders up in stocks mainly so that |
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everybody could take notice of who they were, and ensure that they |
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could never again live normally in society. At some point people |
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figured out that it wasn't a great idea. However, the contradiction |
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between free expression and avoidance of public shaming depended on |
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technological limitations with the publication of information, and |
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those have been circumvented. |
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Now anybody can put anybody else in the stocks, and we all succeed or |
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suffer based on how responsibly everybody else treats the information |
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made available to them. |
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