That wouldn’t make sense, but even if that was not a joke, it would be out of scope. The legislation is likely to focus on requiring platforms to moderate content more strongly; plus maybe penalties for cyberbullying, deepfakes and such.
Being insensitive online is unlikely to ever become a crime, let alone something that can prosecuted retroactively.
There’s a law, possibly international/UN or something, against making laws that retroactively criminalize stuff, so you’re right, on that point.
Pretending that such things won’t ever become a crime, however, when the US is at the point of criminalizing
miscarriage
some brain-wirings/genders
violating christofascist supremacism
not being a Trump-cult member
as the next few years will demonstrate,
is naive/incompetent.
Yes, criminal-law is going to be used to enforce ideological-conforming, throughout much of the West, exactly as China, Israel, Russia, etc, now “use”/abuse law.
That tipping-point has already been crossed, on this world.
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That wouldn’t make sense, but even if that was not a joke, it would be out of scope. The legislation is likely to focus on requiring platforms to moderate content more strongly; plus maybe penalties for cyberbullying, deepfakes and such.
Being insensitive online is unlikely to ever become a crime, let alone something that can prosecuted retroactively.
There’s a law, possibly international/UN or something, against making laws that retroactively criminalize stuff, so you’re right, on that point.
Pretending that such things won’t ever become a crime, however, when the US is at the point of criminalizing
as the next few years will demonstrate,
is naive/incompetent.
Yes, criminal-law is going to be used to enforce ideological-conforming, throughout much of the West, exactly as China, Israel, Russia, etc, now “use”/abuse law.
That tipping-point has already been crossed, on this world.
All your examples indicate that if anything, having an actual black face is riskier than doing blackface in the long term.