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Lego instructs California police department to stop using Lego heads to mask identities of suspects (www.foxnews.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

This isn't a human rights violation, however. Lego is not a person.

But, Lego heads are their intellectual property, so they can stop that. The human rights part would be more of an issue for another organisation.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Not the human rights of Lego, rather the human rights of suspects or accused people.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

That’s what I’m saying, the human rights part is the only thing that matters in this issue. IP law is ultimately meaningless and a hinderance to society while privacy and human rights are a moral objection to what’s happening here.

What LEGO did does not fix the problem, prisoners will still be used as social media posts. They do not fundamentally care about those people, they just want to protect their brand.