We are publishing the tax secrets of the .001%

Re:We are publishing the tax secrets of the .001% by toomuchtodo on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @09:20AM (#27434769)

How you feel about this is going to depend on where you are on the political spectrum. I fully support this decision based on where the country stands on inequality and socioeconomic power imbalances. It’s in the public interest to demonstrate the result of poorly constructed public policy (and thereby stoke inertia to fix it and erode wealth inequality).

I’m happy to make my tax returns and income history public if the wealthy are required to do the same.

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Re:We are publishing the tax secrets of the .001% by bko on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @09:40AM (#27435051)

So if someone wanted to demonstrate poor building codes by setting your house on fire, that would be okay too, since you know, it's in the public interest to demonstrate lax building codes?

Privacy is a right that I would think more people on this forum would respect. I don't see why you're so happy to offer up the rights of others as sacrificial lambs to make some political point.

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Re:We are publishing the tax secrets of the .001% by toomuchtodo on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @09:43AM (#27435097)

A better analogy would be breaking and entering to collect evidence that a building was unsafe for occupancy, and I’d support that as well under the assumption that due process had failed and there was risk to those marginalized.

I don’t believe there is an absolute right to privacy. As always, there’s nuance.

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Re:We are publishing the tax secrets of the .001% by sokoloff on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @10:58AM (#27436045)

Does this hypothesize the lack of a functioning court system to issue a search warrant, the lack of observing the Fourth Amendment in the US (or equivalent in many other countries), or both?

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Re:We are publishing the tax secrets of the .001% by toomuchtodo on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @11:34AM (#27436535)

No hard and fast rules. Like obscenity, a reasonable person believes the situation warrants it when they see it.

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Re:We are publishing the tax secrets of the .001% by bko on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @09:50AM (#27435179)

So evidence obtained illegally outside of due-process is fair game in your book?

I guess by saying "when due process failed" kind of makes it so since by definition it "failed".

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Re:We are publishing the tax secrets of the .001% by itsoktocry on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @11:00AM (#27436073)

>So evidence obtained illegally outside of due-process is fair game in your book?

So evidence of horrible crimes should be ignored if subjective "due-process" isn't followed? You do realize that the moneyed elite have disproportionate influence over "process" and law, right?

Focus on the leaks and whether they are true, not the messenger.

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Re:We are publishing the tax secrets of the .001% by bko on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @12:04PM (#27436976)

The "horrible crimes" of following the applicable tax laws. Got it.

I'm not focusing on the messenger. I'm questioning the ethics to violate the privacy of private individuals to try to score political points.

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Re:We are publishing the tax secrets of the .001% by aaron-santos on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @03:11PM (#27439504)

You're not advocating for modeling our actions, social interactions, behaviours, and relationships after our criminal justice system, right? Also you're not advocating for an equivalentcy between judicial evidenciary procedure and information gathering, and judicial due process and social due process, right?

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Re:We are publishing the tax secrets of the .001% by deeblering4 on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @09:51AM (#27435190)

If you purposely set it on fire, thats arson. But actually yes, in many cases accidents are catalyst needed to make change happen for the benefit of the public.

A dangerous intersection gets a traffic light after a horrible car crash.

A dangerous building design code gets corrected after the doors wont open outward during a fire.

Problems need to first come to light to be fixed.

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Re:We are publishing the tax secrets of the .001% by greenie_beans on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @09:44AM (#27435113)

What? That house burning example is absurd and bad logic

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Re:We are publishing the tax secrets of the .001% by sophacles on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @01:39PM (#27438353)

> So if someone wanted to demonstrate poor building codes by setting your house on fire, that would be okay too, since you know, it's in the public interest to demonstrate lax building codes?

Yes, of course destroying property and incurring expenses for the local government is exactly the same as releasing records... oh no wait - its not at all the same.

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