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by qwerty456127 1373 days ago
Automated enforcement is evil and must be banned (except in situations when the violations themselves mostly are automated and come in unbearably huge quantities).
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>Automated enforcement is evil and must be banned

Aren't the only people able to enforce the banning of automated enforcement, politicians, the very people that want the blocking done in the first place?

All you have to do is get them automatically screwed over by some unaccountable systems and we will quickly have laws that require automated systems be accountable.
Banning automated enforcement is also the end of free and maybe even cheap services on the Internet.
Nah, it would be the end of politicians demanding ever increasing shitty automation affecting a huge percentage of valid use cases. We didn't have any regulations demanding automated enforcement before it was possible, certain media lobby industries just wouldn't be able to abuse the state to enforce their profits via spurious, entirely untried copyright claims.
Okay, I don't mind.

I am not rich but I would agree to double and triple on my internet subscription if the Internet would be made significantly better (scarce and exclusively curated non-intrusive ads, no tracking, no DRMs, no forced/nudged "engagement", no automated enforcement, no paywalls, everything easy to download and or syndicate, etc.).

In fact I would already pay Google and Facebook if they would seriously stop treating me as a product and would consider me a client whom they would act in best interest of. Yet they don't even offer, even those who actually pay them get blackholed routinely.

I understand there are poor countries where people really can't pay so I don't insist the business model has to change for everybody everywhere.

> In fact I would already pay Google and Facebook if they would seriously stop treating me as a product and would consider me a client whom they would act in best interest of.

They do. But their customers are their advertisers, not their users. Their users are literally the product. Their public services are bait for eyeballs.

If you were a fish, on a hook, would you offer to pay the fisherman for better tasting bait? The fisherman isn’t concerned about the bait as long as it’s good enough to catch you and send you to market.