Sadly it’s not a joke, we’re really bad at English over here, and the police are no better (my guess would be they’re actually worse at it). I noticed that people under 30 are getting better though.
Most people simply don’t get the point. They don’t understand, let alone care about, digital privacy and security.
Anecdotal evidence: I have a short Gmail address (think [email protected]), and a lot of smartasses use it to subscribe to everything, mostly as a throwaway but also on e-commerce sites, fintech bullshit with access to their bank accounts, …
Once I got curious and reset the password, logged in and the moron had already filled in all his personal info, including his credit card. Another time I sent an SMS to the guy asking him to stop, he replied “it’s my address, my nephew set it up for me, I guess we just have the same one”.
These guys would never take 10 minutes to set up a 2FA app.
Well it’s the same for the free market really. On paper it’s a nice idea, but in practice it makes the world miserable because people are, in general, fucking selfish assholes.
I know, I am one :( But I also know that if I had to go to a dealer to buy cigarettes, I couldn’t smoke in public and it was as socially frowned upon as hard drugs I’d have a much easier time quitting.
I’m very pro-legalization but honestly tobacco is a shit drug. No real high, very addictive and awful health effects. I don’t see many people going through the hassle of maintaining their addiction illegally if it was banned everywhere.