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Again, sure technically, but it also Streisands everything about it. The cost-benefit for prosecutors and the other party isn't a slam dunk!

Personally I'd absolutely do it and take the gamble. But I'm risk-thriving (hence started several companies, enjoy international travel, etc.)

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>Personally I'd absolutely do it and take the gamble. But I'm risk-thriving (hence started several companies, enjoy international travel, etc.)

I did not think I would ever see someone comparing starting businesses and international travel with committing clear misdemeanors and possible felonies and opening oneself up to civil suits.

That sounds like a description of every American civil rights activist ever.

Great, so instead of being able to count on the justice system we're basicall back to mob justice?

We like to think of it as democracy in action.

So the Salem witch trials were "democracy in action"?

The Salem witch trials were under the justice system.

No shit. I was totally wrong. I picked a horrible example, lol. Thanks =)

Yep. Democracy isn’t perfect it’s just one compromise among many.

So better that more innocents be punished than risk any guilty going free? Truly, your love of the strictest "definition" of democracy is baffling, though I think most would vote against you.

No, Democracy gets it wrong in both directions with more of the guilty set free and more of the innocent sent to prison at least compared to a hypothetical ideal system.

I'm not sure how you get "punishing innocents" from publishing a very incriminating recording even though making such a recording is illegal.

You literally called the Salem witch trials democracy in action, and don't understand how I got to punishing the innocent?

Mob justice can be true justice. As in this case precisely, there was proof that a court refused to listen to.

At some point you need to worry about deep fakes, etc, but there's still cases where the accused more or less says they are guilty and flips the court off and everybody acts like nothing can be done about it.

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