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Once the microplastics are generated they are quite hard to contain.

Once the crime is spent no.

It means the search engines can't stick their fingers in their ears and ignore real people's legitimate needs to put their past mistakes behind them.

If what they say breaks a law yes. For example in the UK the rehabilitation of offenders act means that once a crime is spent it is an offence to discuss publish information about the crime. This is a classic instance where right to be forgotten is used.

I don't see any reliable source there. Are some of those profiles verified? I also didn't see any reference to suicide.

> On email systems that allow for 'subaddressing' or 'detailed addressing' (e.g., "ken+sieve@example.org"),

This rfc merely acknowledges that some systems do this. It doesn't say the must or even should.

One of the features of academia is that those on the inside of the club know which papers are to good to be true - but no one says anything publicly.

Sounds like something where if you offered that as a service you would probably be legally required to Know Your Customer and to keep records...

At the time the age of consent was 16 in the US Virgin Islands...

What made you pick out the Terje Søviknes case over the Trine Grande case?

> We're both discussing what he wrote.

I'm not prepared to discus that further with you until you can justify or retract your libelous interpretation.

As for the government minister that is not the one in question. I found the one involving Trine Skei Grande far more comparable https://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/i/a2Wp1M/han-var-17-skei.... Even so you will note that the minister you mention can continue to serve as an MP.

And a fourth playing the game.

> it ok for a 70 year old man in a position of power to (hypothetically) have sex with a 17 year old girl. Erm, no. Can sex in such circumstances be fully consensual? No, it can’t

I provided an example with a government minister in Norway already... The minister in question remains in the government (the allegations are unproven but would easily be enough to destroy a British politician). Clearly two very similar western countries have very different moral stances on sex between consenting adults!

With regards most of the rest of your post we are largely in agreement.

Except regarding your misunderstanding of RMS's position. I invite you to read what he wrote yourself and revert if you think that is what he actually meant to say! Or to edit your post.

Legally speaking no it is not. Morally speaking yes it can be (depending on many factors).

Some legal systems attempt to account for this. E.g. England and Wales have two key ages. Having sex with someone under 16 might be (to use US terms) rape or statutory rape depending on whether the person under 16 consented. Both are illegal but rape more so. Having sex with someone under 13 is always rape since children under 13 are not considered able to consent. But in some cases 16 is not the cutoff if e.g. a teacher has sex with a pupil under 18 this is also always illegal. On the other hand if the defendant genuinely did not know the chief witness was under 16 and there was consent this is a defense.

Put it this way a member of the Norwegian government has been widely reported to have had sex with a drunk 17 year old (I am not certain whether the reports are true since the teenager has declined to comment). If the age of consent were 18 then the minister would have been investigated by the police. Since it is 16 the minister continues to serve in the government without stigma. Big difference in outcomes but the teenager is the same age.

Of course there has to be a cutoff. 16 seems reasonable to me. But I would not have sex with any teenager.

Sounds non-insane. Opinions should indeedbe free. Facts should be free. Lies that harm should not be OK.

A nice side effect of criminalizing defamation would be that the enforcment would be up to the state. When it is a civil affair only rich people can defend themselves.

Wow.

Its not asking though. Its screaming, threatening and drumming people out of their jobs if they don't comply.

I say this as someone that uses gender neutral pronouns etc.

> Gavin McInnes is really a misogynist and founder of Vice.

He has been fired. I don't much care for people like him but he is not part of the problem with Vice.

> She's really building weapons for the US department of defense

Can I get a link or reference for this? It is a big fact...

If only so much goodwill were extended to everyone we would not have reached this insane situation.

EDIT - I see that she is an adult with a job. I hope RMS sues and gets some damages. Defamation should have consequences.

In my experience social justice equates to the opposite of treating people decently.

All sensible senior academics keep their doors open. It is one way to avoid exactly these sorts of accusations!

We are not alone. It takes a brave person to put their head above the parapet in the current climate.

There is another large part of the community that wants no part in the community as a result of events like this. I guess we will end up with two communities one focused on software the other focused on social justice (wokeware). It looks like the social justice community will get the code and trademarks. Fortunately thanks to RMS the code is available to fork.

I guess things aren't organised yet but I and others I have spoken to IRL have already stopped interacting with certain projects.

I was wondering if some of the community's thought leaders might jump ship - but I guess they will be purged anyway so that should help!

EDIT: Would any downvoters care to comment on why they think this won't happen? Do they think we will continue to participate against our will...

If we made deliberate or negligent defamation a criminal offence it might restore some sanity to society.

Thoughtcrime is an apt description for the events that triggered this moral panic.

> Some people in the gray areas are going to get burned,

The ends justify the means right?

The housing situation in London has been comparably bad.

So how are you guys able to build freeways and even homes if your construction costs are so high?

(If you've ever tried to get a builder in Copenhagen or London you won't start talking about construction worker wages as being lower in Europe!)