[atoav]

A friend of mine still uses a old Nokia from ~2009. Will he get a free smartphone? Who will check if he has it on him? What if he has it on it and the battery is empty? Or the screen is broken? What if suddenly everybody wants a free smartphone? What if suddenly everyone carries a broken old phone with them as a decoy with the police?

The answer to these questions is easy in a authotarian state: you assume they are bad actors and use the full force of the state on them – so people will go out of their way to do as if they comply with your rules even if they don't.

In any democratic nation with a culture of scepticism when it comes to the government it won't be that easy. If you force people to do things over here, you will get a considerable portion of people working actively against you in ways that you cannot prove. It might be easier, more efficient and fruitful to just make it voluntary.