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by AnthonyMouse 2705 days ago
Someone is a horrible person if they are falsely accused of something and use the argument that most effectively allows them to avoid being falsely convicted of it?

It seems to me if you have a country where some people don't have equal rights, the problem is the law, not any individual defendant. That's the easy one to fix, in the sense of knowing what should be done. Much easier than trading false positives against false negatives when there is no way to actually know what happened.
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stale2002 2705 days ago
I am saying that if you make an argument in court that says "This law should be overturned!" as google literally did, then I am going to assume that this means that you think the law should be overturned.

And I will judge you morally if I believe overturning this law is a bad thing.

A company is responsible for it's actions. And if it's actions in court cause a good law to be overturned, as is their stated argument, then I will judge them very poorly for this.

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AnthonyMouse 2704 days ago
The problem is that everything is always complicated.

If employees use the company's email system to discuss politics, then the company's email system contains their policy views, which may not be the company's. Then the company gets sued by someone else who gets a copy of those emails and uses the employees' personal views as evidence of the company's official position.

A solution to that would be to have the law be that political discourse can't be used as evidence of policy or intent in a court case. That might be a good solution, but there may not be support for it in the existing law.

The alternative would be to prevent employees from using the company's official channels for their political discussions, to create a brighter line between official and personal speech. Arguing for the second thing is worse -- it has a lot of other problems -- but arguing for the first thing may not be possible under existing law, leaving it as the company's only apparent alternative to avoid liability. What are they supposed to do then?

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stale2002 2703 days ago
> What are they supposed to do then?

What they should do is follow the law, and not try to get rid of worker protections.

I don't care that it has negative effects on them. I am going to judge them morally, for trying to get rid of a good law.

The whole point of laws is to prevent companies from doing bad things, that might be in their interests.

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