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Re:Airbnb and security camera disclosure by Retra on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @03:10PM (#18924564)
"Regulating whenever something bad happens" is problematic, but it's a bit of a straw man. You should be regulating wherever people are incentivized to do bad things, which happens quite often when you don't offer any oversight whatsoever. Especially when you are unwilling to even regulate the reporting of misbehavior.
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Re:Airbnb and security camera disclosure by dsfyu404ed on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @03:17PM (#18924646)
>but it's a bit of a straw man.

Knee jerk legislation is not a straw man. It happens all the time. The CFAA is a knee-jerk law. Here[1] is a more recent example.

[1]https://abcnews.go.com/US/ny-gov-andrew-cuomo-bans-stretch-l...

And the last paragraph of the article mentions banning long vehicles, which itself is a knee jerk response to when a drunk t-boned a limo on Long Island awhile back.

I agree about regulating incentives though.

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