Re:California bill would let parents sue social media compan...
by ben_w on Thursday March 17, 2022 @08:44AM
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“Effective”, or “perfect”? Because almost everything every government does, good and ill, is not the second but it is the first. Totally ineffective bans certainly exist, but they are much rarer — even in the case of drugs, unless your pharmacy is currently selling cocaine 'Toothache Drops', or heroin or morphine cough syrup.
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Re:California bill would let parents sue social media compan...
by scarface74 on Thursday March 17, 2022 @09:11AM
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Almost everything the government does is “effective”? Have you been paying attention to the government? I can’t find it right now, but there was a survey done that no matter which side is in power, the policies that the government want is rarely aligned to the policies that most people want.
Re:California bill would let parents sue social media compan...
by ben_w on Thursday March 17, 2022 @09:30AM
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“Effective” is a separate axis to “what J. Average wants”.
For example, a government may want to circumvent encryption: if they tried to do this by requiring the SQL tables to be mauve “because that has the most RAM”, that would be ineffective; conversely if they passed a law requiring backdoors in everything, while this would be bad for many reasons, it would definitely have an effect.