Japan passes revised penal code with harsher punishment for cyberbullying

> "The road to hell is paved with good intentions."

I agree. For example, we created a global flat bidirectional un-gatekept communications network with the altruistic and high-minded belief that if allowed to communicate without the material trappings of class, race, gender, and the various other things that separate us in "meatspace," we'd create a techno-utopia of our best selves through rational discourse and the clear-eyed sharing of different points of view.

Instead, suicides among teens exposed to this firehose are spiking. We should address that.

> if it violates someones right to exist then shouldn't the culprits be punished

What happens when the culprits are society as a whole?

In this case, there are varying levels of toxicity, but the general sentiment among Japanese netizens was disproportionately against the Hana Kimura.

Slander and libel laws are nothing new, though. They have those in the USA and elsewhere.

According to this web page:

https://www.freedomforuminstitute.org/first-amendment-center...

numerous states in the USA have punishments for slander/libel of up to a year in prison or fines of around a thousand bucks or more.

The definition of the wrongdoing varies.

For instance Oklahoma's wording says "false or malicious", which implies that the behavior is libel even the representations made are true, provided they can be deemed to be malicious.

Abuse coming in 3..2..1...

As with every law involving limitation of free speech, it will be easily abused by powerful people against less powerful people.

Also, it appears they already had a perfectly legit punishment:

" ... The penalty applied to the crime under the pre-revised law was "detention for less than 30 days" or "a fine of less than 10,000 yen (roughly $74)" -- the lightest punishments under the Penal Code. ..."

Now I don't know anything about prisons in Japan, but I'm 100% sure I wouldn't want to spend 29 days in any jail for any reason. Wouldn't ensuring any abuser gets that 4 weeks in jail be already a hell of a deterrence?

Note that I'm totally in favor of hard fighting bullism of any kind, but not in a way that could be easily abused; serving jail for "insults to damage one's reputation" seems just too broad and a very handy tool to hit journalists, political adversaries and freedom of information in general.

> From 1960's to roughly the early 2000's, all computers you bought ran local software exe's in plain text , aka you could open up the .exe, .com or .dll file and reverse engineer it and restore missing functions to get older software running on newer systems.

I don't believe this part has anything to do with your conspiracy

Binaries are in this format because it's convenient to store and more optimal to run them in this format. Most users don't really care/want to edit binaries/executables...

Regarding piracy: I'm sure you worked at a company that had a product, which was sold in some fashion. Part of that money went to paying your salary. Imagine there are no piracy laws/protection, and everyone uses your company's product without paying you. Where does your salary come from now? Trees?