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0 pointsahnick11d ago0 comments

> laws are only as good as we have systems in place that are willing and ABLE to enforce them.

The 'able' part is the critical insight. Laws are too often passed that really have no ability to be enforced, but end up adding bureaucratic processes that law abiding companies have to follow. This also implies that governments need to actively clean up existing laws, which almost never happens unless there is enough support to pass a new law to actively supplant the old one.

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johannes123432111d ago

There is also that international problem. If an South American is frauded on an US American platform, by an east European using an African fake chatter: Which legislation, which court is applicable? Which oversight authority should handle this?

peterlk11d ago

I don’t think this problem is that hard to solve, it just requires political will that doesn’t exist. The solution is to make it the platform’s problem. If the platform doesn’t want to deal with fraud, they don’t get to operate in that jurisdiction. Sue them into submission. If they don’t care about that geography, then there is now a gap in the market for a more local business to fill.

Eddy_Viscosity210d ago

> I don’t think this problem is that hard to solve, it just requires political will that doesn’t exist

This is equivalent to saying "I don't think the problem is hard, it just requires an a simple solution that doesn't exist". Problems are hard problems specifically because simple easy solutions for them don't exist.

johannes12343219d ago

How do I enforce that? - They probably got no office in my country. No representative I can arrest.

Maybe I can confiscate money paid for ad's or something, however that probably runs via a payment system outside my control.

So I have to punish my local companies advertising, but then it won't be my local branch of Coca-Cola advertising, but a foreign branch.

Enforcing this, without international cooperation, is tough. And currently international politics aren't in a cooperative phase for large parts.

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