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Re:Australia: Sex consent app proposal sparks backlash by im3w1l on Thursday March 18, 2021 @07:56AM (#26501722)
> If you want to punish someone, just say they raped you, and put up with a month's worth of prison.

I'm not sure that is necessarily a problem. If someone is willing to suffer in prison to get revenge, then there must be some kind of serious grievance behind it. They say "an armed society is a polite society", and this kind of double edged sword might just lead to a more polite society. It becomes a formalized way of taking vigilante justice basically.

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Re:Australia: Sex consent app proposal sparks backlash by kjeetgill on Thursday March 18, 2021 @08:08AM (#26501799)
This is just a very short rabbit hole to paying someone else to spend a month in jail for you.
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Re:Australia: Sex consent app proposal sparks backlash by im3w1l on Thursday March 18, 2021 @08:14AM (#26501850)
That's a fair point. I suppose that just like paying a thug to beat your enemy up, you would have to make the transaction illegal and hope you can make it sufficiently uncommon that it's not a problem.
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