Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws
HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world 3 days agoIf they hurt someone, then they get charged with a crime. If they do not there’s no injury to anyone else so it’s not a crime.
gian@lemmy.grys.it 3 days ago
I don’t like the idea and where it could take us.
In the case of DUI, I think the idea behind the law is to avoid that a drunken driver hurts someone, with potentially lethal consequences, not only punish them if he do it.
Once a drunken driver killed someone is too late, even with the harsher punishment.
Again, your problem is not the law itself, it is the fact that your law and the justice system is designed in such a way that you are always set up to fail, in a way or another, be for the stupid DUI charge if you are sleeping in your car, the open container law or the way too expensive justice system. That is what you should fight.
HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I don’t like the idea of actions that don’t hurt others being a crime.
It’s about consistency. If we make it illegal to do things that MIGHT wind up hurting someone there’s no limit to what we can make illegal.
gian@lemmy.grys.it 3 days ago
Me neither, but I like even less the idea that an action that is, demonstrably, dangerous to other should not be stopped until it provoke damages.
You are right. And it is about consistency the starting point from which we are discussing: minors should not be able to access porn. Now, in the real life there is such law and it in on the seller to check, exactly because you cannot count on the fact that a parent is 24/7 with his child, so I don’t see why we should not try to enforce the same law on the Net, it is only on a different media.
Now, I agree that checking on the net is way harder than in real life, but minors are minors and porn is porn. If it is dangerous to see a naked woman on Playboy is also dangerous to see her on Playboy.com.
I see your point, but I simply think that if something is proven to hurt someone, like DUI, then maybe it is right to make it illegal.
HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Proven? To whom?
Excessive alcoholism is known to cause harm. Should we make being an alcoholic illegal? Wouldn’t that make it harder for alcoholicsnto try to get help, for fear of being arrested instead of getting help, much like what happens to drug addicts?
People get hurt constantly while fishing, too. Should we make fishing illegal?
The problem is where do we draw the line. You want to draw it at some possibility of harm to others. I want to draw it at actual harm to others.
Which of these is more or less likely to wind up being stretched over time?
You aren’t thinking about bureaucrats and politicians 20, 30, 50, or 100 years down the road. “We’ll just fix the laws when it becomes a problem!”
Sure. Because we’re really REALLY good at removing or rewriting broken laws… Oh, wait. No we aren’t.