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UK: Coins the term 'thoughtcrime'. Also UK: Criminalizes 'thoughtcrime'.
by TimedToasts 2y ago
UK: Coins the term 'thoughtcrime'.
Also UK: Criminalizes 'thoughtcrime'.
- deadbunny 2y agoImagining some naked and producing graphic images of them without their consent is a little different.
- ryandrake 2y agoWhere do you draw the line? What about if someone, without consent, tells a story and describes every last detail of that person, short of drawing a physical picture? What if they write down that story? What if that story is kept in a safe inside your house and nobody else reads it? Why draw the line at a physical image?
- kergonath 2y agoIt’s not really, though, is it? It’s similar to things like death threats: creating a picture of someone getting killed is not illegal, but using it in a coercitive way very much is. It’s not a completely different thing just because it involves boobs. Harm is not done when the file is created, it’s done when it is spread maliciously to bully someone, and that’s where prosecution should be focused. The fact that a representation of a thing itself is illegal is quite backwards and ought to be at least seriously debated more seriously than in the moral panic we have now. Otherwise, we’re back to punishing people for their creations, whether that would be ideas, writings, paintings, or digital files, just because some people do not like it.
- lukan 2y agoYou still may phantasize about whatever thoughts you want to. But creating an image that can be watched in the real world, is more than "thought".
- throwaway74432 2y agoWait until your Neuralink can show what you're visualizing.
- xenospn 2y agoIf you want to inject Elon Musk into your brain, that’s on you.
- evandale 2y agoSo if you have Neuralink (or anything similar that gets released in the future) you can be convicted of thoughtcrimes and that's a-ok? What exactly is "on you" in this scenario? In your world is someone with Neuralink allowed to take their brain images and use that as an outline for a sketch they're drawing or you're not allowed to think of anyone naked ever again?
- darkwater 2y agoWhen the thought becomes something tangible and that can be possibly shared in a very fast and efficient way, is it still just a "thought"?
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- numpad0 2y agoUK: being dystopian IRL Also UK: make above real enough that it has a term that's some admirable British consistency. Unironically. Honestly.