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Yes, because getting cancer from smoking is the same as having cookies in your browser. What a completely asinine argument, even if it seems to be very popular
by mardifoufs 4y ago
Yes, because getting cancer from smoking is the same as having cookies in your browser. What a completely asinine argument, even if it seems to be very popular these days.
"Oh you are against x regulation? Yet you aren't against mandatory seatbelts or warnings in cigarette packages, or child labor laws! Curious!"
Like you realize that it is a pretty self defeating argument, since you are inadvertently saying that any regulation is a slippery slope to another one. Which thankfully isn't the case, and people can actually form an opinion on individual laws (and even disagree with them!) even if they are in favor of other regulations.
- Barrin92 4y agoYou gravely misunderstood the point of the analogy. The issue at hand isn't regulation, because nothing is being regulated, so there's no slippery slope. What cookie warnings and cancer warnings have in common is that they make transparent, to you the consumer, what a company or product is doing to you. You can still do it and opt into everything. It's no more regulatory than a nutritional table on a package of food. People sometimes then have the weird reflex to blame regulators for making explicit what garbage they're being fed, when you should take it up with the company who is actually responsible for vacuuming up your data.