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Re:Apple terminates Epic Games developer account, calling it... by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @02:20PM (#39620049)
> Provide an incentive for companies to regulate each other

Do you think there is a reason every modern democracy resists privatising criminal prosecution? (They had it in Rome. We probably need a history of law section in the basic high-school curriculum.)

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Re:Apple terminates Epic Games developer account, calling it... by Apocryphon on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @02:23PM (#39620094)
The justice system in this hypothetical would not be private, it's just that companies would be trying to sue each other for breaking the rules, accidentally advancing the public interest.
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Re:Apple terminates Epic Games developer account, calling it... by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @02:26PM (#39620136)
> companies would be trying to sue each other for breaking the rules

We already have private enforcement of many rules. Environmental ones, for example. We’re specifically discussing criminality, putting people in jail.

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Re:Apple terminates Epic Games developer account, calling it... by Apocryphon on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @02:31PM (#39620200)
Fair enough. I just see it as an escalation in deterrence.
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