Re:Governor vows criminal prosecution of reporter who found ...
by closeparen on Friday October 15, 2021 @12:09AM
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The humans who administer the server have agency. They went and purchased an apparatus for publishing information to the world. They connected it to the world. They pointed it at that information. They turned it on.
A printing press also isn’t sentient and can’t guess whether its operators really mean to share every sentence on the plate. But browsers and readers of printed materials (that are left in public places) have no obligations to the publisher’s state of mind. Why should browsers of digital materials?
A printing press also isn’t sentient and can’t guess whether its operators really mean to share every sentence on the plate. But browsers and readers of printed materials (that are left in public places) have no obligations to the publisher’s state of mind. Why should browsers of digital materials?