There is enormous value in letting humans communicate freely through the internet and any harm which comes from the misuse needs to be very carefully weighed against the benefits.
By the way, fossile fuels are partly responsible for the greatest uplift in human quality of life. Pesticides are essential in creating a sustainable food output.
> any harm which comes from the misuse needs to be very carefully weighed against the benefits.
Also, misuse can be addressed in different ways, blanket bans and surveillance-enabling authentication are misuse themselves.
Yeah, and they are not sentient beings we owe something in return to.
When they were useful we used them. Now that they’re more harmful than useful we stop using them.
I don’t understand the moralizing around that.
Both of them are regulated but it is understood that they are critical to society without which a lot of stuff won’t happen
I will never trust that a solution will actually be privacy friendly. Even if someone could imagine a technical path to it, I just don’t trust governments to care about privacy. Eventually it’ll mean that we can’t speak online with anonymity.
They first need to convince enough other parties to get a majority on the vote to allow them to actually govern, and then they also need to go scavenge for enough votes for every single piece of their plan - which will inevitable result in a quid-pro-quo with the other parties.
There are a bunch of festering problems the Dutch politicians have been avoiding for years now which really have to be solved by the next government. No matter the solution, it is going to be deeply unpopular. This minority coalition is going to have very little political capital left to spend on its own plans, so I highly doubt they'd waste it on something like a social media ban.
You've got to remember: their program is nothing more than a moonshot. There is no way they are ever going to realize all of it, and none of them care enough about social media to make it a hill they are willing to die on.
I get the argument, but it's just not a solution
