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> Expecting privacy has become unreasonable by definition.

*in the US that is. Basically everywhere else, esp. Europe, has been moving into the complete opposite direction here. There is _more_ privacy rights - and recourse, like the right to delete - then there has been at any point in the past.




Yeah, Europe has an interesting way of maintaining legal fictions.

The geographical naming rights is one such thing. Anybody anywhere can make any kind of cheese, but one cannot say the cheese is parmesian (or any other given example) cheese without being located in a certain region. There was a famouse case where a cheese maker in itally opened a new factory on the other sside of town which happened to be across the lambardi river, and suddenly they were no longer able to say that cheese was whatever kind of cheese...

That is just one example of many... why legal fictions are bad arguments in Europe, and don't work internationally. One cannot demand other people unsee things they have seen (wipe their brain memory), and so it goes it's equally unjust to demand other people delete photos of them they have seen and recorded in photos.

It's a lot more nuanced than that, and in some cases the privacy ideas are fully justified, but you get the idea.... there cannot be absolutism in either direction.


just consider parmesan to be a protected trademark owned by the people living in that area.

should they not have the right to protect their trademark?


Just like anybody can make a disney princess movie, but can’t actually call it that? Or just like everybody uses post-its at work but not everyone can sell it that way?


> legal fictions are bad arguments in Europe

What does that mean? What is a legal fuction?


They're disparaging laws they personally don't like by saying they are fictional.




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