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It does seem messed up that we see a bad behavior, create a law to ban that behavior, and the law's biggest beneficiary is the company doing the bad behavior.
by wayne 6y ago
It does seem messed up that we see a bad behavior, create a law to ban that behavior, and the law's biggest beneficiary is the company doing the bad behavior.
- Ekaros 6y agoOn other hand should then the bad behaviour be allowed to continue forever? Isn't something late better than never?
- Spivak 6y agoYes but if you don’t also punish the companies who did the bad thing then you end up just giving them a moat. I’m of two minds about our legal system in this regard. It’s nice that you don’t really ever have to be worried about getting punished for things you did in the past suddenly being declared illegal but in doing so it rewards entities who have no conscience. And large groups of people acting together are quite good at silencing individual consciences.
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- swyx 6y agoyea right now we are simply incentivizing going after unregulated space as aggressively as possible before laws are written for them. writing regulation after the deed is done tackles symptoms while fueling root cause.