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by josinalvo 2188 days ago
The easy answer? Make some regulations depend on scale. We already do for much of legislation.
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That just means a bunch of fly-by-night startups that have even less controls around data protection than Facebook and Google would proliferate.
i'd suggest making punishments scale with size (and as a result, enforcement), rather than regulations contingent on scale. it's conceptually and regulatorially easier, and more fair.