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You've just changed the cost of doing so from near costless (a DB update) to very expensive to do at scale. (Jail, police staffing, court staffing, prisoner car
by novok 5y ago
You've just changed the cost of doing so from near costless (a DB update) to very expensive to do at scale. (Jail, police staffing, court staffing, prisoner care and feeding, potential violence and injury, paying staff to find targets, manually, etc) That alone is worth a lot.
- bccdee 5y agoAs if the United States has ever had any qualms about wasting money on the justice system. Remember the war on drugs?
- ygjb 5y ago> (Jail, police staffing, court staffing, prisoner care and feeding, potential violence and injury, paying staff to find targets, manually, etc) That alone is worth a lot. Uh, you do realize that to politicians, enforcement looks alot like a jobs program?
- noisy_boy 5y agoScale doesn't mean you need to process the entire target population. A carefully selected subset of targets with visibility tailored for demonstration purpose can be very persuasive for the rest of the people to fall in line. Of course that also comes with the risk of resistance and riots.