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Crime-facilitating Speech

damien · 2005-09-14 19:23:22

Paper (PDF) on "Crime facilitating speech" which apparently is: The interesting thing is that this might become a leagal issue soon enough. Discussion here and here.

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14-09-2005 8:23pm

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damien

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Paper (PDF) on "Crime facilitating speech" which apparently is:

“speech [that] provides information that makes it easier to commit crimes, torts, or other harms”.

The interesting thing is that this might become a leagal issue soon enough.

Discussion here and here.

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#2 14-09-2005 8:36pm
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This is one of my pet peeves.

If you criminalise information then the only people who have access to it are criminals (or risk becoming so). This leads to mass public minunderstanding of the issue and only facilitates the criminals further as the law making politicians have no coherent mandate from the public because they as law abiding citizens have no right to know.

Basically I see the "nothing to see here" approach to be incompatible with democracy.

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#3 15-09-2005 8:29pm
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That sounds far too close to Crimethink for comfort.

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100021.txt

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