| ▲ | stuffn 2 hours ago | |
This sounds good as a sound bite. But barely any investigation cracks it. We don't police companies much because we have entire divisions of law enforcement who are supposed to be doing that job. 1. If a restaurant serves food that harmed people the health department is the avenue used to investigate and punish. 2. If a game company enables endangering children the FBI is the one responsible for investigating it. etc etc. I don't understand why people love the nanny state so much. We can't continue to make companies be the police, the stewards of truth, and justice. They demonstrated just recently, during COVID, that this was an absolute disaster. Over the last 30 years we have watched freedom erode because the average American wants to foist all responsibility onto someone else. The nanny state is wrong which is why the OP is being downvoted. 1. It is the parent's fault for not monitoring their children. It is absolutely a reflection on poor parenting-by-proxy via video games. I don't understand why we continue to absolve parents of responsibility for everything. 2. We have legal avenues with which we have used and continue to use for the investigation of harmful things produced by companies. 3. If we cannot use (2) we should ask why - the answer is almost always follow the money. 4. Corporations should never, under any circumstance, be turned into police via lawfare. | ||
| ▲ | crazydoggers 36 minutes ago | parent [-] | |
The one catch here is that there are limited legal avenues, and your solution requires a robust legal system and laws which is what we don’t have. At the moment over -worked police departments have to play wack a mole going after every single perpetrator, and they also can’t see everything happening on these systems to police it. As an example, organized crime thrived in the US at the turn of the century because we didn’t have the legal apparatus to deal with it. Not until the RICO act in 1970 did we finally start to stamp it out. So exactly what we need are legal avenues to make sure that companies can’t purposefully enable child abuse in order to turn a profit which is exactly what’s happening here. (Regardless of what they claim, the evidence is overwhelming they know but don’t want to dent their income) | ||