Guilt by association is much more a social construct, than a legal one.
The bar for legal consequences is expected to be much higher than mere association.
It has never been perfect, nor uniformly applied in all circumstances, but it is and should remain a nominal goal of the justice system. For that to no longer be considered the case, even in a casual conversation like this, is a devastating shift of the Overton window towards authoritarianism as the norm.
Limits on association and limits on technology use are standard fare when on probation for a felony CFAA conviction.
From my understanding, guilt by association is quite valid legally when it comes to Tor exit nodes, due to the fact that other people’s traffic appears as your traffic.
It may not literally be guilt by association, but they’re two parts of the same whole in this case, right or wrong.
Guilt by association: if a group of three approaches another in a confrontation, and one person punches another then would all three be seen as violent?
>Guilt by association is much more a social construct, than a legal one.
Turning this sentence up and down, and still fail to get what it tries to convey. Law is social construct per definition, isn’t it?
>It has never been perfect, nor uniformly applied in all circumstances, but it is and should remain a nominal goal of the justice system.
No? Like, at best it is just going to pretend to be so. Then it’s actually all ruled by ambitious sociopath manipulators that take The Prince as bedtime reading, either right from the start or as soon as they can unleash their master plan.
Can anyone point to any jurisdiction in the world which puts equal duties and rights with actual associated material/logistical means on every single citizen? If no, we might be free to conclude that justice and equality are words on frontispiece of the theater, not how the leviathan is planning to actually process.
All that said, not everyone is Aaron Schwartz. Even supposing it’s only to maintain the façade, institutions do also have to act against some criminal outside of their own ruling castes.