Contradiction FinderAug 12, 2023
I bring you yet another ironic display of #hypocrisy. The UN’s Universal Declaration of #humanRights has recently become an access-restricted document. If you are in the excluded group you get a #403forbidden error. And worse, if you try to fetch a copy using the #WaybackMachine, /everyone/ gets to see a copy of the 403 error instead of the human rights declaration because the #UN is blocking the #InternetArchive (effectively, the UN has become anti-Library).
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Isn’t it bizarre that there are some US states & local govs that put legal code behind #paywalls?

Why isn’t there outrage that people are bound by laws they do not have open and free access to? You must pay a fee to see the plumbing code. A lot of #law nationwide is jailed in #Cloudflare, so you don’t get access to the legal statutes if you are excluded by Cloudflare. If you want to read tax law, the #IRS website directly blocks Tor users.

I just now wanted to read the International Bill of #HumanRights on a highly ranked site: #humanrightscareers.com, & got swamped with popups, animated ads, & garbage that drained my data credit. This should not be a consequence of getting public legal code.

So what’s the solution?

Check all that apply.

#poll

status quo is fine- let law be exclusive access
0%
law should be text/PDF/PS & FTP downloadable
36.7%
law should be published on a lynx-compatible site
30%
law should be reachable from ANY IP address
33.3%
Poll ended at .
Aug 12, 2023 at 11:00amWeb