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Time money and resources are being spent on a protection from something that should be regulated out of existence. We are now actively innovating against these
by robbywashere_ 6y ago
Time money and resources are being spent on a protection from something that should be regulated out of existence. We are now actively innovating against these tracking technologies which we are finding adversarial to our rights to privacy. Isn’t it time we ask our governments to do something about this?
- whomst 6y agoLegislation isn’t robust
- oxw 6y agoHow do you mean 'robust'? Taxes are dodged but that's not a good argument against tax law.
- stkdump 6y agoIt's an argument that both will be needed, so not so much "time, money and resources being spent" (wasted?)
- Frondo 6y agolegislation - and enforcement - is the best way we as a society can declare some things off-limits. what does it mean for it not to be robust?
- nitwit005 6y agoComputer viruses, piracy, and various forms of spam are illegal and can carry harsh sentences. We all see plenty of it. That people occasionally get caught probably does discourage some of it, but there's obviously plenty to go around. At some point you have to accept that the law won't get rid of some of this stuff.
- jlgaddis 6y agoSo, since some will choose to continue to break the law, we should just give up, do away with the laws, and make it a free for all? That makes absolutely no sense at all.
- nitwit005 6y agoPeople have more than one tool, because a single tool isn't the solution to every problem. The law helps with many social problems, but it's rather frequent to hit cases where it's either outright innefective, or the cost of enforcement exceeds the cost of the problem itself.
- shakna 6y ago> Computer viruses, piracy, and various forms of spam are illegal and can carry harsh sentences. We all see plenty of it. However, you can't expect to see a virus on every single page you visit on the web, because it isn't the norm. The presence is severely reduced because it is illegal.
- setr 6y agoI mean, that was kind of the norm 10-15 years ago, during the interim between viruses becoming illegal and browser sandboxes being worth anything Seems to me making it impossible rather than simply illegal was a much stronger driver of virus-free web browsing.
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- mike_d 6y agoLegislation is a non-starter because there was always be a little island country that will allow whatever you want to exist legally on the internet as long as it generates piles of cash.
- birdsbirdsbirds 6y agoHow does it get the cash? How do you get the data? Some services get away by being small enough that persecuting them costs too much but overall, laws work.
- msh 6y agoYou can always make it illegal to use the services in other countries.
- solarkraft 6y agoIt might be good for it to be regulated away, but that's just going to be ... about 100x the effort.