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A comment on California bill would let parents sue social media companies for addicting kids. Parent comment

Re:California bill would let parents sue social media compan... by scarface74 on Thursday March 17, 2022 @09:11AM (#30710756)
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.
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Re:California bill would let parents sue social media compan... by ben_w on Thursday March 17, 2022 @09:30AM (#30710948)
“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.

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