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anigbrowlyesterday at 5:59 PM1 replyview on HN

What are you going to seek consequences for, if there isn't sufficient transparency to know violations are occurring?

We already know what bad stuff is being done

This is a witch-finding mentality: witchcraft exists, I suspect this person of being a witch, therefore burning them at the stake is justified.


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wizzwizz4yesterday at 11:07 PM

There is sufficient transparency to know violations are occurring, and we can usually rule out other actors circumstantially to give us a suspect – often Facebook, Google, or another "Big Tech" company. There isn't enough transparency to conclusively prove it's them (as opposed to some secret shadowy conspiracy who've concealed all other evidence of their existence – which we do need to rule out, for the innocent-until-proven-guilty standard), but that's what the legal fact-finding process is for.