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Isn't that a war on billionaires using drugs? Where "information usage being criminalized" is "drug consumption being criminalized" and the "billionaire doing d

• robonerd 4y ago
  "War on drugs" and alcohol prohibition are frequently used by libertarians to suggest that all forms of prohibition are doomed to cause more damage than that which they prohibit. But this is a sleight of hand, drawing attention to two specific prohibitions which generally failed, away from the myraid of prohibitions that work just fine. Such as the prohibition against selling cars without airbags, or the regulation of CFCs, or asbestos in new construction, or selling live frag grenades to the unlicensed public, or a thousand other things governments around the world successfully regulate and prohibit every day.
• mindslight 4y ago
  A corporation (or LLC) is not equivalent to a singular person or a small informal group, but rather a bureaucracy that operates according to openly promulgated rules and goals. Operating outside of those rules exposes one to individual liability, regardless of specific individuals often being judgement proof or otherwise impractical to assign blame to. One of the practical problems with the "war on drugs" was its bumping up against individual privacy. Corporations have no such privacy nor right to privacy - being chartered under government authority means they need to continually file compliance reports and are essentially closer to being organs of the state rather than individual humans. So no, if a company does decide to illicitly process personal information for nonconsensual purposes, that most certainly can be enforced upon.