this post was submitted on 13 Jul 2023
227 points (97.1% liked)
Technology
59446 readers
3485 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related content.
- Be excellent to each another!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Approved Bots
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Perhaps there should be government controlled licenses for some technologies, like for gun ownership? Although there's probably all sorts of ways that be circumvented. Not sure how best to control this though.
*edit wow thanks, nice to know what sort of community this is. Nothing in the responses so far have told me anything I didn't already know, and I did point out that it would be circumvented. I don't see any other ideas though. Maybe with that sort of negative defeatist response we'll never even try. Fuck it right, let's just watch the world burn. /s
Ah yes because making something illegal stops criminals from using it. Problem solved.
Basically impossible.
It's against the ToS to use tools like teamviewer to run user support scams, for example, but people do it anyway. You can't legislate against criminals, because if they're already breaking the law, why would they care about another law?
The only way forward here is enforcement. There needs to be better coordination between governments to track down and prosecute those running the scams. There's been a lot of pressure on India, for example, to clean up their act with their very lax cybercrime enforcement, but it's very much an uphill battle.
Not really comparable to guns, making it harder to get a physical object is much different from preventing people from downloading software. Even 3d printed guns require equipment and knowledge to make use of the download.