This is interesting... then what happens to the concept of 3 strikes and out?
Supreme Court Says People Can’t Be Banned From The Internet
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#12This is now interesting. Apparently prisoners in the US and many other countries are not allowed to have Internet access. In the US there is a system in place that allows inmates to communicate text only emails. I don't think you can call that plain text messaging "the Internet" in 2017. With this supreme court ruling, how prisons in the US are going to allow inmates to have access to the real Internet? I mean you ca…
Ban != Access
You can NOT ban someone from the Internet but you may deny access to Internet in prisons.
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#13If I recall correctly Kevin Mitnick was banned from using a phone or a computer quite a while back. Right?
Well they had to.
They couldn't very well give him the opportunity to initial a nuclear attack by whistling down the phone could they?
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#14This is now interesting. Apparently prisoners in the US and many other countries are not allowed to have Internet access. In the US there is a system in place that allows inmates to communicate text only emails. I don't think you can call that plain text messaging "the Internet" in 2017. With this supreme court ruling, how prisons in the US are going to allow inmates to have access to the real Internet? I mean you ca…
Perhaps a prison would even be the ideal environment for working on e.g. a large open source project.
That would have meant ReiserFS would have continued.
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#15This is now interesting. Apparently prisoners in the US and many other countries are not allowed to have Internet access. In the US there is a system in place that allows inmates to communicate text only emails. I don't think you can call that plain text messaging "the Internet" in 2017. With this supreme court ruling, how prisons in the US are going to allow inmates to have access to the real Internet? I mean you ca…
Prisoners are slaves under the constitution. It is a bummer but it is our last slave institution.
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#16re: sex offender lists and sentencing The implication is that the people on the list are still a threat. If that's true, shouldn't they still be in prison?
No. You don't get thrown into prison for being a threat. You get there for a specific action.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Perhaps a prison would even be the ideal environment for working on e.g. a large open source project.
That would be fitting continuing of all the great books that were written in prison.
Considering the vast numbers of prisoners, the rate of literary production is not that great, especially when you take out the political prisoners.
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#18This is now interesting. Apparently prisoners in the US and many other countries are not allowed to have Internet access. In the US there is a system in place that allows inmates to communicate text only emails. I don't think you can call that plain text messaging "the Internet" in 2017. With this supreme court ruling, how prisons in the US are going to allow inmates to have access to the real Internet? I mean you ca…
Prisoners are slaves under the constitution. It is a bummer but it is our last slave institution.
Prisoners are (in most cases) slaves of their own deeds. People are free to do whatever they wish. But some deeds are not good to others - like killing, stealing, etc. If they can't control themselves not to do those things (therefore "slaves of their own deeds"), then other people must take control over it and put such people into prison. By doing this, other people - especially those without control - are scared off similar deeds... A new chance is given to a prisoner when their sentence has finished and are free again...
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#19Does this apply to seizing domains?
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#20This is now interesting. Apparently prisoners in the US and many other countries are not allowed to have Internet access. In the US there is a system in place that allows inmates to communicate text only emails. I don't think you can call that plain text messaging "the Internet" in 2017. With this supreme court ruling, how prisons in the US are going to allow inmates to have access to the real Internet? I mean you ca…
Ban != Access You can NOT ban someone from the Internet but you may deny access to Internet in prisons.
I'm confused by your statement. If "Ban != Access" then what's preventing courts from simply denying access (not a "Ban" under your assertion above) to people outside of prisons as well?