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> Just a few years to teach the lesson You sound like a Stalin (I came from an authoritarian country). Imprisonment usually does an amusingly bad job at "teac
by deepsun 5y ago
> Just a few years to teach the lesson
You sound like a Stalin (I came from an authoritarian country).
Imprisonment usually does an amusingly bad job at "teaching a lesson". If you want to "teach a lesson", then why not torture?
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- vanusa 5y agoThat's a classic slippery-slope argument there. That is to say, a non-argument: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope There's nothing "authoritarian" about imposing criminal penalties on those responsible for not just violations -- but as in this case, egregious, massive and intentional violations of consumer protection regulations. It's just how a civil society works.
- moduspol 5y agoI was being sarcastic, but yes, I do think these threads tend to encourage a groupthink mentality. The vast majority of users like free websites and do not feel like targeted advertising is a serious problem. This was true before GDPR and these silly cookie warnings, and it continues to be true. Likewise, implementing a cookie dialog that requires more clicks to opt out completely is not so morally questionable as to justify the discussion I had responded to.