> There's no impersonation involved; the analogous email would say that the sender would notify authorities about the recipient based on the answers.
No, the analogous email would say it would notify the authorities if they didn't answer in the legally required timeframe (which doesn't exist). Honestly, it's a fairly tortured example that doesn't fit well.
First, the person requesting in reality is the person making sure their own rights are being honored (whether erroneously or not) based on real laws, while your example is some random person asking others about information that is not really their business.
Second, which is based upon people presenting somethign publicly. It's more analogous to going up to someone that has a shop on a public street and requesting info on their current health inspector rating, which is required by law to be shown (for restaurants). A public website is public. You get something be being public, but that might also expose you to liability.
> It's unclear how this would be more or less random than the e-mail to websites.
Hopefully it's not unclear anymore.
> And you'd be just as quick to defend such an asshole, right?
I'd be just as quick to say that yes, that person is an asshole, but I don't think you can necessarily attribute all the lost time and money to looking into their request as wasted, unless it's the short amount of time it takes to tell them to go to hell.
If someone is unhappy because they wasted hours or money on an attorney because some random person asked them their immigration status, well that's probably something they should have worked out already, if it was that important, so the time isn't "wasted".
In other words, it's entirely possible for an asshole to accidentally cause you to do something beneficial for yourself that you should have done long ago. That doesn't make them less of an asshole, but I also wouldn't consider it their fault them for the time you spent finally getting your shit together.
Notice how I'm not really defending someone being an asshole, just making a note about outcomes? Perhaps you should look at that and my past statement before continuing down a path of accusing me of "defending" someone.
No, the analogous email would say it would notify the authorities if they didn't answer in the legally required timeframe (which doesn't exist). Honestly, it's a fairly tortured example that doesn't fit well.
First, the person requesting in reality is the person making sure their own rights are being honored (whether erroneously or not) based on real laws, while your example is some random person asking others about information that is not really their business.
Second, which is based upon people presenting somethign publicly. It's more analogous to going up to someone that has a shop on a public street and requesting info on their current health inspector rating, which is required by law to be shown (for restaurants). A public website is public. You get something be being public, but that might also expose you to liability.
> It's unclear how this would be more or less random than the e-mail to websites.
Hopefully it's not unclear anymore.
> And you'd be just as quick to defend such an asshole, right?
I'd be just as quick to say that yes, that person is an asshole, but I don't think you can necessarily attribute all the lost time and money to looking into their request as wasted, unless it's the short amount of time it takes to tell them to go to hell.
If someone is unhappy because they wasted hours or money on an attorney because some random person asked them their immigration status, well that's probably something they should have worked out already, if it was that important, so the time isn't "wasted".
In other words, it's entirely possible for an asshole to accidentally cause you to do something beneficial for yourself that you should have done long ago. That doesn't make them less of an asshole, but I also wouldn't consider it their fault them for the time you spent finally getting your shit together.
Notice how I'm not really defending someone being an asshole, just making a note about outcomes? Perhaps you should look at that and my past statement before continuing down a path of accusing me of "defending" someone.