comment: >
  
  Put pedophiles on this list
context: In Sweden you can look up anyone’s crime record and income with the click of a button, it’s good for checking out potential tinder dates (the crime record part, not the income) but it’s also kinda creepy that pretty much your entire life is public and you can’t block access to your info. >
  
  Everyone’s income is public knowledge? >
  
  Yup, you can either contact our tax agency for free or pay a symbolic sum to one of the companies that provide this information, I think in some cases the person will be informed that you’ve made the request though. >
  
  How interesting…. I know that would make for a very different situation here in the states. >
  
  Sweden's kind of big on transparency. You can also google where pretty much anyone lives and what their phone number is. If you google my name and surname you'll get the precise address I live at, what year I was born, when my birthday is etc. Eniro.se and many similar sites function as modern day phonebooks. 
  Just last week I found someone's ID at one of those 24/7 unmanned convenience stores. I looked the name up on Eniro to see where he lived so I could go put it in his mailbox. >
  
  Seems like a bad country to live in if you have a stalker problem. >
  
  If you have a stalker and have reported this to the police, you can  apply for privacy marking with the Swedish tax agency, which will then exempt you from the public registry
  Goes for anyone who has cause for protected identity and can certify this with police paperwork >
  
  It's very difficult to get protected identity, far from anyone who wants or needs it gets it. >
  
  Just hire someone to stalk you so you have a case. 😌 >
  
  A bit of cost upfront and all of the sudden you're anonymous >
  
  I read that as Australian (NSFW) and was wondering what made Australians so problematic >
  
  New South Fucking Wales >
  
  As a Victorian, that is how we usually say it when discussing our northern state >
  
  Ditto from Queensland when talking about the southern state >
  
  Oi cunt >
  
  I think this is a good idea.
  I happen to remember that in Colombia you can't legally marry if you have killed a former partner. >
  
  This needs to be a law everywhere >
  
  I disagree. It is, despite the internet's hateboner for criminals, entirely possible for criminals to be reformed. It'd be a lot fucking easier if we didn't treat them like subhuman scum, actually. >
  
  Reddit funnily enough swings between hating criminals to death and also simultaneously whining why countries aren't adopting Nordic rehab style prisons. >
  
  Yeah, both groups are prominent here on reddit (I think less so elsewhere on the internet), but I directed my comment towards the "treat them like subhumans" crowd because I feel they're more prevalent overall, and they're obviously more dominant here. >
  
  “Oh my god, your K/D ratio is awful. We are so over.” >
  
  Because nobody wants to find out the hard way that they are dating Katherine Knight >
  
  She’s a great example, in some ways. 
  But also, everyone knew. Aberdeen is a small community. There weren’t many people who didn’t know about her tendency towards violence. Her previous interactions with police were well known. Pricey certainly knew about many of them, and he’d been at the centre of a few of them. 
  In the case of a database like the one mentioned in the article, it’s only going to be particularly useful if the potential victim uses the information to approach a relationship in a different way. There are plenty of people out there who will know, 100% for certain and in graphic detail, about someone’s violent history, and still pursue/maintain a relationship with them. 
  That’s absolutely not victim blaming - it’s an example of how complex these kind of scenarios really are. 
  I’m in support of this kind of resource though - I think that anything which might provide the critical piece of information to help a person make a decision which saves them from the grief and trauma of a violent relationship is worth pursuing.