Gov Parson pushes to prosecute reporter who found security flaw in state site

Re:Gov Parson pushes to prosecute reporter who found securit... by q1w2 on Thursday October 21, 2021 @01:50PM (#28948285)

The people who consider themselves "on the fence" aren't enabling the extremists. They are orphaned and alienated by the extremists in all parts of current politics. They aren't the ones trying to storm the capital or burn down federal court houses.

In any grouping of humans, there are bad actors and good actors. Using the bad actors to characterize the entire group, when they're a minority of that population is how you create stereotypes that break-down discourse. Empowering and encouraging the moderates in your opponents camp is is diplomacy 101. Insulting them empowers your enemies.

That's the same logic used to say all young black men are criminals, all young arab men are terrorists, all white farmers are racist, etc...

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Re:Gov Parson pushes to prosecute reporter who found securit... by t-writescode on Thursday October 21, 2021 @01:54PM (#28948352)

To compare from the "other side" (though I'm not actually a Democrat), this is how I feel when I see the people I vote for screech propagandized speaking points for anti-gun stances.

There are 2A Democrats out there that have to tolerate the insane (to them) things their representatives support.

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Re:Gov Parson pushes to prosecute reporter who found securit... by cwal37 on Thursday October 21, 2021 @02:09PM (#28948593)

Only insane in the context of recent decades. The vast bulk of jurisprudence (centuries) supported a much more restrictive reading of 2A, and changing that was a concerted effort of conservative groups (starting in the ~1980s), particularly out of more conservative law schools such as those in Tennessee.

This was pretty well documented at the time if you would like to read about it[0].

[0]https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/09/21/to-keep-and-bear...

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Re:Gov Parson pushes to prosecute reporter who found securit... by t-writescode on Thursday October 21, 2021 @02:39PM (#28949102)

> particularly out of more conservative law schools such as those in Tennessee.

This sounds contradictory to my understanding, related to the Black Panthers in California back in the 60s.

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Re:Gov Parson pushes to prosecute reporter who found securit... by cwal37 on Thursday October 21, 2021 @02:57PM (#28949309)

Separate things. Black Panther activity in California led to Reagan passing some restrictions in that state. I'm referring to jurisprudence at the higher court levels, which generally did not support the very strong individual rights to gun ownership that you see stated as "basic" rights now. The popular (and largely in practice) understanding of what 2A means for an individual is pretty different today, and very expansive.

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Re:Gov Parson pushes to prosecute reporter who found securit... by t-writescode on Thursday October 21, 2021 @04:17PM (#28950297)

I believe that was Malcom X's whole stance and a major part of the argument that the Black Panthers had; and he died in 1965

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