PeaceRequiresAnarchy
09-23-2012, 11:53 AM
http://peacerequiresanarchy.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/copymachines.png?w=692&h=215Mimi & Eunice: Copy Animals (http://mimiandeunice.com/2011/08/19/copy-animals/)
Liberty activist Ademo Freeman is in jail right now. He was (unjustly) imprisoned for the "crime" of recording his conversations with people without telling those people that he was recording them.
I wrote a blog post about his story that includes an argument I thought of that makes the case that people have the right to record their conversations with others without notifying them that they are being recorded.
Here is the blog post: "A Wiretapping Double Standard: Machines vs. Animals": http://wp.me/p2cdsV-bl
Do you agree with the argument I present? If not, why not? Thank you for your feedback in advance.
A quick summary of the argument:
1. People have the right to record their conversations with others using their brain.
2. Whether a conversation or piece of information can justly be recorded or not is not dependent on the tool (e.g. brain or electronic recording machine) used to record the conversation/information.
3. Therefore people also have the right to record their conversations with others with the help of non-brain tools, such as electronic recording machines.
Also, the argument for the sharing aspect of wiretapping*:
1. People have the right to share justly-acquired information with others.
2. Therefore, given the conclusion from the previous argument, people have the right to share information that they have recorded from their conversations with others, both when that information was recording using their brain and when that information was recorded using a recording machine.
For more information on Ademo Freeman’s caging see: http://www.copblock.org/freeademo/
http://peacerequiresanarchy.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/ademo_freeman.jpg?w=217&h=179 Free Ademo!
* (Note: This is not what Ademo Freeman was convicted of. The State of New Hampshire says that the injustice was that he recorded the conversations, not that he shared the conversations with the public on YouTube. However, I am including this argument here anyway because in my experience people are as likely to believe that the sharing part is unjust as they are to believe that the recording part is unjust. And therefore, this argument is relevant to the question of whether or not it is just to imprison people like Ademo for recording others without notifying them and sharing the recordings with others.)
Liberty activist Ademo Freeman is in jail right now. He was (unjustly) imprisoned for the "crime" of recording his conversations with people without telling those people that he was recording them.
I wrote a blog post about his story that includes an argument I thought of that makes the case that people have the right to record their conversations with others without notifying them that they are being recorded.
Here is the blog post: "A Wiretapping Double Standard: Machines vs. Animals": http://wp.me/p2cdsV-bl
Do you agree with the argument I present? If not, why not? Thank you for your feedback in advance.
A quick summary of the argument:
1. People have the right to record their conversations with others using their brain.
2. Whether a conversation or piece of information can justly be recorded or not is not dependent on the tool (e.g. brain or electronic recording machine) used to record the conversation/information.
3. Therefore people also have the right to record their conversations with others with the help of non-brain tools, such as electronic recording machines.
Also, the argument for the sharing aspect of wiretapping*:
1. People have the right to share justly-acquired information with others.
2. Therefore, given the conclusion from the previous argument, people have the right to share information that they have recorded from their conversations with others, both when that information was recording using their brain and when that information was recorded using a recording machine.
For more information on Ademo Freeman’s caging see: http://www.copblock.org/freeademo/
http://peacerequiresanarchy.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/ademo_freeman.jpg?w=217&h=179 Free Ademo!
* (Note: This is not what Ademo Freeman was convicted of. The State of New Hampshire says that the injustice was that he recorded the conversations, not that he shared the conversations with the public on YouTube. However, I am including this argument here anyway because in my experience people are as likely to believe that the sharing part is unjust as they are to believe that the recording part is unjust. And therefore, this argument is relevant to the question of whether or not it is just to imprison people like Ademo for recording others without notifying them and sharing the recordings with others.)