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I sense that some of this trigger happy approach is coming from other consumer protection laws triggered by the society (through popularity hungry polititians)
by mihaaly 3y ago
I sense that some of this trigger happy approach is coming from other consumer protection laws triggered by the society (through popularity hungry polititians) demanding action from someone and anyone when one or some adverse parties use technology and services with harmful intent.
Not all of course, companies with too much power act hostile just for the sake of it (means random management bullshit from power obsessed or just ambitious member of it).
So I am not too sure if even more and more consumer protection laws for for particular situations will solve this instead of making it worse.
- JKCalhoun 3y agoApart from just hoping the companies come around, what do you suggest then? Or are we perhaps just screwed and have to walk on eggshells when we are on the internet?
- mihaaly 3y agoWe should not expect that some mistical fater figure or "they" will solve everything for us. Yes, we need to use the internet as there were hostile elements out there and without blind trust and blind fury that someone is not acting on our behalf all the time. Some regulation is necessary for most serious or common matters but regulations are not a magic wand that will solve all of our problems without effort from the individual!
- JKCalhoun 3y agoI always think of "they" as "us" — the society we make create to serve our collective interests. And that is exactly what it exists for, why we create it‚ because it is required to change the things we as individuals are incapable of addressing.
- Eisenstein 3y agoAh yes, the old 'companies are screwing us but it is regulation that is the real problem' argument that seems to disregard everything that reality and history presents. Hint: if you have no evidence of something but believe it because of an underlying philosophy, you should figure out how true it is before arguing its case.
- mihaaly 3y agoProbably should not diregard the history of harmful regulations while doing so?...
- Eisenstein 3y agoPlease take everything into account.