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A comment on U.K.'s online censorship bill causes more harm than it attempts to prevent.

Re:U.K.'s online censorship bill causes more harm than it at... by jgworks on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @09:11AM (#32411329)
Blackstone's[0] ratio comes to mind when thinking about laws like this:

> It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone's_ratio

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Re:U.K.'s online censorship bill causes more harm than it at... by commandlinefan on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @10:13AM (#32412299)
In the UK, they'd prefer ten innocents suffer than one innocent escape.
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Re:U.K.'s online censorship bill causes more harm than it at... by DaiPlusPlus on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @11:03AM (#32413185)
Correction: the Daily Mail and Daily Express newspapers' editorial directors would prefer ten innocents suffer than one bogneyman[1] enjoy free roam of the nation.

[1] Substitute "paedophile", "Islamic terrorist", "asylum seeker" as per this weeks' dim-right-wing national outrage.

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