On: Accountability sinks

[noisy_boy]

Of all the various useless laws that keep getting enacted, one that guarantees that every company needs to have a phone number, manned by actual human(s) with organic intelligence, advertised prominently on their products/advertisements, never gets passed.

[immibis → noisy_boy]

Germany has this law for commercial websites. Mostly it makes people afraid to have websites.

[lazide → noisy_boy]

Because that would cost them money, instead of forcing people to find their own workarounds (or die).

Many parts of gov’t aren’t far off, and those are the really scary ones.