You've just changed the cost of doing so from near costless (a DB update) to very expensive to do at scale. (Jail, police staffing, court staffing, prisoner care and feeding, potential violence and injury, paying staff to find targets, manually, etc) That alone is worth a lot.
Scale doesn't mean you need to process the entire target population. A carefully selected subset of targets with visibility tailored for demonstration purpose can be very persuasive for the rest of the people to fall in line. Of course that also comes with the risk of resistance and riots.
> (Jail, police staffing, court staffing, prisoner care and feeding, potential violence and injury, paying staff to find targets, manually, etc) That alone is worth a lot.
Uh, you do realize that to politicians, enforcement looks alot like a jobs program?
