This story is greater than the very small slice presented here. It encompasses huge quango structures like the Human Rights commissions, and the recently-in-the-news Esafety Commission. These orgs have basically received delegated power to ruin people's lives through "process". And that power is mostly "inchoate" - that is it achieved th…
This story is greater than the very small slice presented here. It encompasses huge quango structures like the Human Rights commissions, and the recently-in-the-news Esafety Commission. These orgs have basically received delegated power to ruin people's lives through "process". And that power is mostly "inchoate" - that is it achieved their creators' outcomes by scaring people through the chilling effect rather than actually hauling a small number into their star chambers.
When actually exercised those powers are easily abused by kangaroo-court processes that dispense with rules of evidence and threshold of proof; also by exploiting vaguely defined offenses such as hate speech. I am re-living my childhood in communist Eastern Europe now - but in the "free world".
This story is greater than the very small slice presented here. It encompasses huge quango structures like the Human Rights commissions, and the recently-in-the-news Esafety Commission. These orgs have basically received delegated power to ruin people's lives through "process". And that power is mostly "inchoate" - that is it achieved their creators' outcomes by scaring people through the chilling effect rather than actually hauling a small number into their star chambers.
When actually exercised those powers are easily abused by kangaroo-court processes that dispense with rules of evidence and threshold of proof; also by exploiting vaguely defined offenses such as hate speech. I am re-living my childhood in communist Eastern Europe now - but in the "free world".