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This should be illegal. It’s not a complicated or splitting hairs type of situation we should just make it illegal. This is what consumer protection laws are f
by CPLX 4y ago
This should be illegal. It’s not a complicated or splitting hairs type of situation we should just make it illegal.
This is what consumer protection laws are for, there’s literally no reason to throw up our hands. We mandate the precise font and location of the amount of sodium on a bag of Doritos and we can mandate the disclosure of this kind of information too.
These tech platforms aren’t underdogs any more fighting against extinction against a wave of bad actors on the internet, terrified to speak lest the scammers gain the tiniest foothold into exploiting their system.
They’re multi-billion dollar international concerns and part of the establishment and they should be required to abide by basic concepts of fairness and due process that we insist upon in all of societies major institutions.