Re:For cops who kill, special Supreme Court protection
by mindslight on Saturday May 09, 2020 @10:23AM
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> Yes, and for most people in America, this is unquestionably the case.
Maybe you should start questioning it. AFAICT, people in other developed countries enjoy comparable day to day freedoms.
> It's debatable that the US public defender system somehow mitigates this impingement less effectively than any other Western country
The original argument you engaged with was about a complete lack of public defenders in the past.
> The US's copyright laws are on par with those in most of the Western world
Empirically this is not true - eg most VPN providers prohibit torrenting on US exit nodes. And international copyright infringement inducers (eg Kim Dotcom) aren't prosecuted strongly in their own countries, but rather extradited to the US.
Overall, this refrain of "freedom" is actually blinding and counterproductive. And this doesn't change when it's limited to "negative freedom". Unquestioning assertions of "We're #1" erode our rights - detailed critiques preserve them.
Maybe you should start questioning it. AFAICT, people in other developed countries enjoy comparable day to day freedoms.
> It's debatable that the US public defender system somehow mitigates this impingement less effectively than any other Western country
The original argument you engaged with was about a complete lack of public defenders in the past.
> The US's copyright laws are on par with those in most of the Western world
Empirically this is not true - eg most VPN providers prohibit torrenting on US exit nodes. And international copyright infringement inducers (eg Kim Dotcom) aren't prosecuted strongly in their own countries, but rather extradited to the US.
Overall, this refrain of "freedom" is actually blinding and counterproductive. And this doesn't change when it's limited to "negative freedom". Unquestioning assertions of "We're #1" erode our rights - detailed critiques preserve them.