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The thing I never understand is that anyone can make an e2e chat app in an hour. It can exchange files in an afternoon. It’s like banning hand signals. How do
by idontwantthis 5y ago
The thing I never understand is that anyone can make an e2e chat app in an hour. It can exchange files in an afternoon.
It’s like banning hand signals. How do you ban a way of communicating that anyone can do for free?
- gampleman 5y agoYou don't. You just give yourself the ability to send eye-watering fines to any of these apps. If the fine is £100,000,000, but you have only an estimated 0.01% of being prosecuted for it, would you write such an app in an hour? Or would you think twice about it?
- denton-scratch 5y agoIt doesn't matter how big the penalties are, if your chance of getting caught is approximately zero. They keep jacking up the penalties for using a mobile phone behind the wheel, but everyone is still doing it. Big penalties without enforcement is just political theatre.