I have a relative who has had her credit card details stolen on so many occassions that we've lost count.
She clicks every email link. She signs up to "tarot of the day" and "spirit guide" text message scams. She buys things like the GeoCleanse. She's been in MLMs and near-cults. She's never met a grift she didn't fall for.
No amount of user training is ever going to get through to this person.
She'll lose her whole life savings before she takes a moment to imagine that an email from her own personal fairy guide *might* be some sort of scam.
It is tempting to say that if you're silly enough, you deserve what you get. But it isn't true. People who make poor decisions need protection too.
This is who I imagine when I imagine the user who needs protection.
We need regulation.
You cannot protect people from their own bad decisions without putting them in prison.
"local jeet" .. I'm an American. I've always been an American, a legal one at that. The last time I was in India was in the 90s, as a Christian missionary.
You immediately bring my race into things instead of addressing any part of an actual argument. What a fucking horrible response, from what I can only assume is a total pathetic piece of shit. Fuck you and whatever the fuck kind of person is obsessed with viewing everything through the lens of my race. It's everything I fucking hate about Fedi.
Yeah, about that.
I'm sorry if you're too stupid to understand what laws are.
"btw I'm a rootless cosmopolitan, I'm not christian and argue that it's core tenets are fake"
It's amazing how people on about how I'm "American cause piece of paper" and yet they have no fucking idea what makes anyone an America. Are they more America cause they got a piece of paper in 1850 or 1750 instead of 1950?
Not sharing a common morality with american culture is a big deal for the american identity question when you're already a complete foreigner.
I could go into deists, quakers or the massive differences between early Puritans and various protestants within the first century of the country, but I feel like all that would be lost on you.
I think the great irony is that the majority of Americans and even the majority of American conservatives would find your views foreign.
