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Re:Cloudflare CEO on the Italy Fines by saubeidl on Saturday January 10, 2026 @11:49AM (#46567317)
Can broccoli compete with heroin? Why don't we offer people both and see what they like better? Let them compete! Give people choice!
Re:Cloudflare CEO on the Italy Fines by CWuestefeld on Saturday January 10, 2026 @12:39PM (#46567919)
Who gets to decide where to draw the line?
Re:Cloudflare CEO on the Italy Fines by s1mplicissimus on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @11:42AM (#46603445)
Well when I grew up in the early days of the internet, the plan was to have it decided by a democratically elected government that acts in good faith.

Since that didn't seem to work I'm kinda out of ideas as well

Re:Cloudflare CEO on the Italy Fines by woooooo on Saturday January 10, 2026 @09:13PM (#46572079)
Setting aside the bad analogy, real people are much more likely to eat broccoli than to do heroin.
Re:Cloudflare CEO on the Italy Fines by saubeidl on Sunday January 11, 2026 @04:24AM (#46573937)
Once they've had a taste of both?
Re:Cloudflare CEO on the Italy Fines by woooooo on Sunday January 11, 2026 @07:28AM (#46575175)
I am confident that the number of broccoli eaters exceeds the number of heroin users.
Re:Cloudflare CEO on the Italy Fines by saubeidl on Sunday January 11, 2026 @07:51AM (#46575308)
I would posit that is because many more people have had a taste of broccoli than of heroin.
Re:Cloudflare CEO on the Italy Fines by keybored on Friday January 23, 2026 @06:30AM (#46731242)
You would posit based on what? Defunct rats-pressing-pleasure-button studies?

Many people have had "heroin" in the form of morphine in the hospital. They don’t turn into morphine-seekers.

Addiction and pleasure seeking is more complex than having a taste and then being hooked forever. Of course many people can't get out of this Skinner Box type of mindset.