Post by Orac on Aug 20, 2023 10:02:54 GMT
When we already live with an internet where someone can challenge children to overdose with no consequence.
...and, as i suggested we seem to be going through a funny phase in which the people involved in government (through some selection or filter) are increasingly and worryingly 'peculiar'.
For this to be implemented safely, there are a bear minimum of safeguards. This is not exhaustive, but a starting point for discussion.
1) No public employed person can use the information facility or hold or pass on the information for any reason other than to pursue a prosecution for a defined crime. The penalty for infringement is life imprisonment.
2) Contacting any person and inferring or stating that you hold such information when you do not is legally treated the same as holding the information illegitimately (see above for sentencing guidelines)
3) All Trials involving the above two crimes will be held fully in public. All information pertaining to the case will be made publicly available and the trial will be video - audio recorded.
4) The penalty for hiding information regarding the procedures of such a trail (3) will be life imprisonment
5) The details of all the investigations and trails that employ this information will be made public at the close of the trial. The trials will video recorded.
6) The penalty for withholding or hiding information regarding such an investigation or trial is life imprisonment.
7) The penalty for falsifying the source of this information is life imprisonment.
8) The government will create a facility through which legislation regarding the legality of speaking or association can revoked by plain majority plebiscite. It must allow unpopular legislation to be fully revoked within six months.
9) Demonstrated failure to accord with (8) disallows all evidence gained by this method and makes holding it illegal.
10) The internet activity of all public employee managers will be made publicly available on an easily browsable website.