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Re:LAPD Surveilled Gaza Protests Using This Social Media Tool by southernplaces7 on Monday March 17, 2025 @09:40PM (#43394900)
Do you know of some society in which "petty crimes and code violations" are more or less similar socially to homicides? I'd suggest pondering a comment more carefully. People mostly don't contemplate gunning someone down anywhere near as frequently or thoughtlessly as they might jaywalk, or get a speeding ticket. (though there are exceptions of course)
Re:LAPD Surveilled Gaza Protests Using This Social Media Tool by gottorf on Monday March 17, 2025 @10:40PM (#43395231)
The comparison doesn't have to be with homicides. "Every demographic does X at about the same rate" is such a flat-out wrong assumption that you'd really have to cherry-pick X, with lots of caveats and conditions, for it to hold true.

I think there's an ingrained sense of revulsion, in all of us that live in the cultural era that descended from Enlightenment ideals of equality for all, against the idea that there exist observable group-level differences on nearly any metric you could think of, but that doesn't make it any less true.

Re:LAPD Surveilled Gaza Protests Using This Social Media Tool by forgotoldacc on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @01:05AM (#43395967)
The statement was about petty crimes. Things like downloading a song without paying.

If you think people of certain ethnic, racial, political, or religious demographics are more likely to download a song without permissions, I'd like to know what demographics you think are the most likely and least likely to do it.

Because I don't know of a single person in my life who has a computer and hasn't done it.

Re:LAPD Surveilled Gaza Protests Using This Social Media Tool by marcuskane2 on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @11:26AM (#43400575)
> Things like downloading a song without paying.

That is not a crime.

Uploading/distributing/broadcasting a song without copyright permission to do so, might conditionally be a crime, if that usage does not fall within "Fair Use" such as for education, journalism or commentary.

Let's stop ceding more power and control to the copyright cartel, and be careful not to repeat their propaganda that misleads people into thinking sharing books or other media needs to always involve a payment to some publishing corporation.

Re:LAPD Surveilled Gaza Protests Using This Social Media Tool by forgotoldacc on Monday March 24, 2025 @05:48AM (#43459035)
> That is not a crime.

Depends on your jurisdiction.

Because in my jurisdiction, you're wrong. :)