Famed Appeals Court Judge Worries That Allowing People To Record Police Might Mean That People Actually Record The Police
19th September 2011
Mike Masnick at TechDirt does a spit-take.
While I definitely don’t agree with famed 7th Circuit appeals court judge Richard Posner on everything, he’s generally recognized as a smart judge with a strong libertarian belief and a recognition and understanding of real economic issues. However, there are a few times when he seems to just reach a weird conclusion.
I like Judge Posner more than Mike does, apparently, but I have to agree with him this time.
We’re talking about recording public officials who are paid with taxpayer dollarsdoing a job in public, and Posner is worried about their privacy rights? Wouldn’t it be a goodthing for reporters and bloggers to be “snooping around” police if it turns up problems or corruption?
Well, yeah….