alt Hacker News"Innocent until proven guilty" concerns whether someone did a crime, not whether something is a crime.
An action can clearly be a crime, but it might be unclear if you did that action.
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__alexs • yesterday at 6:20 PM
Only our legal institutions and the frameworks they create can decide if any specific act is a crime.
> "Innocent until proven guilty" concerns whether someone did a crime
See my upthread comment: "Innocent until proven guilty" is catchy but false.