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> Give people power and they will use literally every single bit of it and then some This is going back to slippery slope argument issue. What makes you think
by unsui 3y ago
> Give people power and they will use literally every single bit of it and then some
This is going back to slippery slope argument issue.
What makes you think there isn't pushback to create an equilibrium of policies?
Why does it necessarily need to be one-sided, where giving in to one iota entails giving in to the whole enchilada?
Complex systems entail dialogue and pushback across competing incentives and motivations. Yes, each side works on the basis of self-interest, but what is to say that giving one inch necessarily entials giving up entirely, unless the original premise is that one cannot give up anything (i.e., uncompromising by definition). That doesn't seem to scale in any real-world system, only ideal systems.
- dmix 3y ago> Why does it necessarily need to be one-sided, where giving in to one iota entails giving in to the whole enchilada? Because every single time this is what happens. Your argument basically comes down to creating some speedbumps to slow down how long it will take, not whether it will or not create the same predictable outcome. I'd rather not live in a place like the UK where SWAT teams do over-night raids of peoples houses because they tweeted something mean. The sort of situation I'm sure people said would never happen when the ball got rolling decades ago.
- Avamander 3y agoThat's the government, not the ISP taking a look at the "traffic" though. If some random british ISP decided to censor twitter, who'd care to stay? As long as there's a split between powers and a choice, there's just as little need to restrict that as there is to restrict how for example spam filtering works.