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ISPs black-hole because they don't want to get in trouble. Same thing. There's a bunch of layers where actors decide to comply with the law because it's easiest. Like AWS will probably kick you off if they find out you're hosting CP on their servers. Underlying this is the actual threat of state force: besides making advertisers happy, AWS doesn't want to get raided.
It's a heavy-handed solution, but that's kind of the nature of any policy change beyond market rate adjustments. You can tweak bond rates or whatever, but when you want to outlaw something you gotta have state force backing it up. To have, e.g. OSHA standards, you need to be willing to fine and even shut down dangerous workplaces. Most businesses will mostly comply because being punished is unprofitable. This is about worker safety. Jobs where you have to look at cartel executions 8 hours a day shouldn't exist. Rather than e.g. legislate it to two hours but leave an obvious profit incentive for companies to skirt the law, it would be better to remove the profit incentive. Make that an economically unproductive activity, because advertisers don't want to advertise next to "cleaned" but still illegal anon social media.
I agree that the jobs shouldn't exist. But this proposed solution throws the baby, the mother and the whole dang household out with the bathwater. 'State ID the whole internet' is the kind of massively bureaucratic and overly authoritarian approach that I suspect would invalidate a government in any fair society.
I'm starting to realise that fair communistic work organisation solves the problem anyways - nobody will actually be coerced into that kind of shitty work 8 hours a day. If the work needs doing, it can be organised much better, and if its not worth doing, then workers won't do it and the workplaces will find suitable tailored solutions.
ISPs black-hole because they don't want to get in trouble. Same thing. There's a bunch of layers where actors decide to comply with the law because it's easiest. Like AWS will probably kick you off if they find out you're hosting CP on their servers. Underlying this is the actual threat of state force: besides making advertisers happy, AWS doesn't want to get raided.
It's a heavy-handed solution, but that's kind of the nature of any policy change beyond market rate adjustments. You can tweak bond rates or whatever, but when you want to outlaw something you gotta have state force backing it up. To have, e.g. OSHA standards, you need to be willing to fine and even shut down dangerous workplaces. Most businesses will mostly comply because being punished is unprofitable. This is about worker safety. Jobs where you have to look at cartel executions 8 hours a day shouldn't exist. Rather than e.g. legislate it to two hours but leave an obvious profit incentive for companies to skirt the law, it would be better to remove the profit incentive. Make that an economically unproductive activity, because advertisers don't want to advertise next to "cleaned" but still illegal anon social media.
I agree that the jobs shouldn't exist. But this proposed solution throws the baby, the mother and the whole dang household out with the bathwater. 'State ID the whole internet' is the kind of massively bureaucratic and overly authoritarian approach that I suspect would invalidate a government in any fair society.
I'm starting to realise that fair communistic work organisation solves the problem anyways - nobody will actually be coerced into that kind of shitty work 8 hours a day. If the work needs doing, it can be organised much better, and if its not worth doing, then workers won't do it and the workplaces will find suitable tailored solutions.