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Updated Miranda Rights
Jul
24
2014
The concept of Miranda rights is fine, but it needs to be expanded.
People these days have a pretty good idea of what the police and legal system are allowed to do, but it seems that enough people forget that other parts of society operate by different rules.
We need Miranda Rights for 21st-century communication. Anytime someone starts using his phone, laptop, tablet, etc., there should be a prominent warning that he must acknowledge.
Here’s a suggested update:
This call may be recorded. Anything you say can end up on the internet.
Here’s another:
These texts are being logged somewhere. Anything you write can and will be used against you in the court of public opinion.
Last one:
Don’t use Facebook. Who knows how they’ll use your information?
Of course, the rights won’t be very powerful, as there is no recourse available if they were violated. Social media is not so structured as the court system – there is no capability to strike anything from the record.
For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.
Matthew 12:37
This little article thingy was written by Some Guy sometime around 6:09 am and has been carefully placed in the Ideas category.
July 24th, 2014 at 11:05 pm
Those rights advisements will probably eventually run into the same problem that Miranda can: people are so familiar with them, they can’t really hear them. Just like how I click on something every morning when I log on my computer at work. It probably tells me my computer is subject to monitoring and I have no expectation of privacy, or something like that. Or it may say, “To schedule a colonoscopy this afternoon, click here.” I don’t know because I don’t pay attention.
The closer those media are to emulating speech, the more impossible it is for people to control what they say. Or at least that’s what James would say.