Delicious LiveJournal Links for 7-21-2010

[andrewducker]

• Oakland green lights industrial marijuana cultivation
  (tags: marijuana drugs)
• Why not censorship?
  (tags: freespeech censorship)
• I didn't know Conversation had rules!
  (tags: conversation communication psychology aspergers)
• The Gender Stereotype Game
  (tags: gender stereotypes)
• Scots drink a quarter more alcohol than other Brits
  (tags: alcohol uk scotland)
• A screenwriter has a very strange encounter, and writes the best blog post I've read this year.
  (tags: writing crime reality)
• Entanglement - a simple, but addictive, HTML5 game
  (tags: games javascript puzzles)
• Sharp launches world first Android netbook -kinda.
  (tags: Telephone android)
• PressThink: Objectivity as a Form of Persuasion.
  (tags: journalism ethics media bias news)
• Scottish rents rise as home buyers opt to rent
  The best performing city in Scotland is Edinburgh, where the average rent for a one bed flat in the city now stands at £520 - a rise of 3.2% compared with last year - while the average cost for a two-bedroom flat has risen 4.6% to £680.
  (tags: scotland housing)
• The differences between Civil Partnerships and Marriage.
  (tags: marriage law)
• SNP to outlaw smutty innuendo. They can fuck off.
  (tags: sex freespeech scotland EpicFail)
• Sony files patent on using stereoscopic lenses to allow two people to share a screen without seeing what the other does.
  (tags: 3d technology games)
• The former head of MI5 says that the invasion of Iraq substantially increased the terrorist threat to the UK.
  (tags: terrorism uk war iraq)

Comments

[zz]

Reading some more of the bill, there's a similar provision to the israeli lying-is-rape thing too.
consent is void if:
"(f) where B agrees or submits to the conduct because A induces B to agree or submit to the conduct by impersonating a person known personally to B, or"

wtf?

i'm also wondering what "recklessly" means in all of those definitions. apart from it seeming like it's criminalising clumsiness, how exactly does one "recklessly [touch] the vagina, anus or penis [with one's] mouth" as opposed to intentionally?

[major-clanger.livejournal.com]

It's always been rape (certainly in England, I don't know about Scotland) if sex happens because A impersonates someone B is already having sex with. It's a bit different from the Israeli case, because with actual impersonation what is happening is that the victim's implied consent is being abused. (And if you don't believe it can happen, see the infamous case of R v Collins*).

The Israeli case is troubling because it's not a case of pretending to be someone who already has implied consent to sex, but of pretending to be someone so as to get consent in the first place, which is a much murkier and more dubious issue.

I imagine the 'reckless' point is to deal with attempted defences such as 'it was heavy petting and I accidentally went past second base'.

*Exactly which part of Mr Collins may have been technically inside the bedroom is a topic of much ribald speculation among law students introduced to this case.