Let’s say you’re a “benevolent dictator” with complete power over legislative and judicial processes. What laws would exist involving speech(public square and private)? What would punishments look like (if any)?

  • HubertManne@piefed.social
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    5 days ago

    This is tough because ideally I would want no limits. I do recognize speech that could cause harm. The yelling fire in a crowded theater. The only way to really deal with it is the court type of systems we use. You have some initial limits and why and then you encourage courts to restrict it if necessary but minimally. If im immortal I would make myself the dictator of speech as aweful as that would be. Maybe I would not. Man would I get so much flack for what I would allow. I mean a big problem is technology. Like I would have no restriction in literature and that should be the same for all fictional things. So with standard cartoons thats kinda fine. But then like live action well they can’t actually be doing anything illegal so that gets dicey but doable. But they you get to the level of computer graphics that we have today and you get into the very real problem of if you can tell if its computer generated or not and if it is computer generated is it using anything from reality (faces or whatnot) that is also problematic. As much as I hate it I think that is just going to have to be very restricted as its to real and you are going to have to be worried about actual things taking place. If we limit the subject matter to literature then no limits for fiction. You can’t though like print out private information. Like war plans, peoples bank account numbers, spying on someone and writing about what you see. That kind of thing. Of course that would not apply if they were doing criminal activity and you were reporting it to police. Privacy is a whole nother matter where it depends where you are located and your expectations of having it. Your home vs the public square kind of thing.