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Firefox is fine. The people running it are not (www.theregister.com)

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[–] gian@lemmy.grys.it 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Only thing that will stop it is heavy regulation.

Would you agree if someone told you that the only thing to resolve some political problem is heavy artillery?

Well, if everything else failed....

“Regulation” of the “property rights protection” kind is needed. Providing a service presented as a good that doesn’t work without dancing to a certain tune is simply cheating, it’s theft. Providing a “communication platform” augmenting and weighing your words for recommendation system leading to some intended effect is cheating, theft and impersonation at the same time. These should be prosecuted. But that’s not heavy regulation, that’s an update to pretty light regulation.

The problem with light regulation is that it would probably be too easy to workaround, not that a heavy regulation do not have the same problem btw, but more than the regulation itself is the punishment (and the certainty and timeliness of it) that is important.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well, if you've noticed, the punishments have been becoming less and less over many years, unless you are a small-to-medium business or an individual, in that case you have more rules and more punishments.

[–] gian@lemmy.grys.it 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I noted it. That is why I said that the problem is the punishment.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

They didn't stop handing out harsh punishments. Just in a highly unpredictable, unequal and arbitrary pattern.

I've read someplace that the main difference between modernity and middle ages in legal practice was that in modernity punishments were relatively small, but unavoidable, while in middle ages most criminals avoided punishments, but here and there some poor idiot would be made an example of in a highly disproportionate way, like being quartered for stealing some shit and being rude to a priest.