A New Bill Would Force Tech Companies to Report Their Users for Drugs
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The Cooper Davis Act would force tech companies to report suspected drug activity to the government. Experts say it would be a disaster for digital privacy.

The Cooper Davis Act would force tech companies to report suspected drug activity to the government. Experts say it would be a disaster for digital privacy.

  • Version@feddit.deEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    This has already been tried and didn‘t work. People consumed it anyway (surprise).

      • Version@feddit.deEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        Can you tell me how it affects or even hurts anyone if someone is smoking weed at home? There is literally no point in making it illegal. What you can do is making it illegal to do certain things while under the influence of drugs, for example driving a car. And guess what, exactly this happens with alcohol too. But making the drug itself illegal is imo a bad idea.

        • Raphael@lemmy.worldEnglish
          16·
          1 year ago

          We’re progressing, we’re already talking about limitations and regulations and control in general!

          This has been productive for both of us, keep up walking the good path, friend.

          • Version@feddit.deEnglish
            5·
            1 year ago

            The drug market currently is completely unregulated. It‘s easier for a teenager to buy weed, than alcohol. If we make it legal, we can actually regulate it, like alcohol.

            • Raphael@lemmy.worldEnglish
              12·
              1 year ago

              This exact mentality, applied to guns, led to the school shooting situation in the US.

              Also

              According to the World Health Organization (WHO), globally, it is estimated that about 1 in 3 women (or approximately 33%) have experienced physical and/or sexual violence at some point in their lives

              Shall we legalize groping? Legalize it (it’s unavoidable) and then regulate it (applies rules to how long you can touch, where you can touch, etc)

              • Version@feddit.deEnglish
                2·
                1 year ago

                No, missing regulation led to the school shooting situation in the US. Just legalizing won‘t solve any issues, without any proper regulations.

                Consuming drugs is your choice, it only affects your body, life and mind. Sexual assault and drugs can not even be remotely compared.

                • Raphael@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  12·
                  1 year ago

                  It affects everyone nearby, many children have developed respiratory issues due to their parent’s usage of tobacco, drugs make it even worse, you lose control of yourself and ruins the lives of everyone nearby.

                  Where are you from, by the way? You certainly don’t seem to be from a country that suffers from drug addicts, I live in Brazil.

                  • Version@feddit.deEnglish
                    2·
                    1 year ago

                    Brazil has one of the most strict anti drug laws in the world, isn’t that correct?

                    I am from Germany. We‘ll legalize weed soon.

                    And yes, drug usage certainly can affect other people, sorry about the confusion. My point was primarily about normal drug usage, not addicts. Criminalizing it certainly doesn‘t seem to help, every single country that tried this completely failed. On the other hand, countries that do the exact opposite seem to be pretty successful.

                    Edit: You just seem to ignore facts. It works in other countries. The war on drugs failed.

      • Cableferret@lemmy.tfEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Because people in power need excuses to hit people they don’t like without having to pay weregild for it. That’s it, that’s the entire purpose of laws. The whole “protecting society” theory is a convenient smokescreen that we’ve all bought into through generations upon generations of Stockholm syndrome and the fact that we all also want to hit people and be justified in doing so from time to time.