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A law prohibiting child porn would make child porn illegal, not monitor my transactions and prevent encryption. That’s called the redistribution of consequences
by alphanullmeric 3y ago
A law prohibiting child porn would make child porn illegal, not monitor my transactions and prevent encryption. That’s called the redistribution of consequences.
- tzs 3y agoGenerally merely declaring something to be illegal does not stop it. In most cases it also requires catching people that are doing it and successfully convicting them.
- smolder 3y agoInvading random people's lives with dragnet spying to see if they have committed a crime was specifically forbidden by the fourth amendment of the US constitution for good reason, even if everyone in our government willfully forgot that amendment exists.