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Riddle me this. How does banning bits in any way shape or form, prevent their transmission and storage?
by eksith 13y ago
Riddle me this.
How does banning bits in any way shape or form, prevent their transmission and storage?
- dragonwriter 13y agoBans themselves rarely directly prevent things. What they do is provide for punishment for people found to be doing them, which then provides a disincentive.
- bayesianhorse 13y agoBy preventing you from buying groceries with funds received via bitcoin...
- cinquemb 13y agoUnless you buy from farmers at farmers markets who accept bitcoins…[0] [0] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5787.0%3ball https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5787.0%3ball
- PeterisP 13y agoWell, it is certainly possible by a government to force farmers to not accept bitcoins at those markets.
- kristiandupont 13y agoIt doesn't. But it does mean that you won't be able to pay Thai companies except maybe a few small/rebellious ones with bitcoin.
- PeterisP 13y agoBy fining or jailing you if you are transmitting&storing those bits; or by shutting down your company if you are selling goods or services for bitcoin.
- AndyKelley 13y agoChild porn is bits too. People seem to be okay with making those bits illegal.
- dllthomas 13y agoI'm not.
- AndyKelley 13y agoMe either. I don't believe in information ownership.
- dllthomas 13y agoI don't see how the issues are linked. Do they simply stem from a common philosophy, or does a disbelief in information ownership somehow entail inability to punish for possession?
- AndyKelley 13y agoThe way I see it, information possession and ownership are the same thing, and neither concept should be recognized by the law. What does it mean to possess bits? Do they have to be on a physical media on my property? What if I have a network drive? Do they have to be on a server that I have access to? Does that mean that we're all in possession of everything that is made public on the Internet? There are ways to answer these questions, but I'm not convinced that we have anything to gain from the government doing so.
- oleganza 13y agoUnfortunately, making child porn illegal is a waste of time if the goal is to protect children from abuse. In reality, though, "protecting children" is a banner under which people grab more abusive power. In my view, everyone who is actively fighting with tertiary effects of a social problem is either stupid or plain evil.
- coldtea 13y agoLet's say there's only 11 people in the world. The huge-ass 400 pound 6"5 bolybuilder of the 11, bans the use of bitcoins. 3 guys defiantly continue to trade in bitcoins. The other 7 are not so sure -- they rather stay legal. When the gorilla guy caughts wind of one the traders, he smashes their heads with a hammer and/or throws them in jail. This make 7 other guys even more reluctant, and even makes 1 of the remaining 2 traders to rethink his actions. Makes sense? Substitute the gorilla guy with law enforcement.