It is a good question. The Coastal Protection Act 1949 forbids removal of all materials from beaches, which, if taken extremely literally, means a child would be committing a crime when they bring home a seashell, or indeed, you’d be committing a crime of negligence if you walk away with a bit of sand in your shoe. Obviously there is some nuance required.
Reality: People are expected to be reasonable. You’re probably not going to be in trouble for taking one rock. This law exists primarily to provide a means to prosecute people or companies who exploit the mineral resources on a bulk or commercial scale, which would cause damage to the coastline. It must be so, because whilst this law exists, and applies everywhere, you will also find official signage at fossil beaches which tell you about the fossils you can find there with an expectation that they will be collected and taken home.
My interpretation of all this: be reasonable in general, obey local rules, and in my particular case as a content creator, be responsible - don’t encourage people to disobey the locally-posted rules.
Why was the law worded that way then? Absolutely idiotic.
@interfluidity No, because that's necessary for keeping the peace. And it's not the same thing as judging truth and falsehood in order to censor people.
...all of them are worse than nostr, which isnt yet perfect and truly peer to peer, but it gets us a lot closer and further into that right direction.
fediverse is not needed.
also, i dont believe in that kind of forum of language/spec driven process.
the process you invited me to is the issue imho.
i am all for discussions like the ones we have here. they dont matter apart from inspiring some thoughts and what then matters is what work gets done later
I think I don't mind limits in the economy but arbitrating truth is a role the government should never take, regardless of whether one can make a metaphor that compares those two areas ("marketplace of ideas").
@curtosis@rajivsethi But absent that, it strikes me as special pleading. Both of our major political formations rely on lies, exaggeration, and misinformation to help form their coalitions. My fave Bernie frequently parrots a line about the fraction of Americans living paycheck to paycheck that's probably false. 5/
@ntnsndr@douginamug I think, while #ATProto is a terrible protocol for a decentralised social network, it's great for something that would already be centralised, like a forum, or something that you want to be centralised for whatever reason. Advantage: self-authenticating data.