As someone who actually does read the rules for a bunch of places; they often have no relationship to what actually gets enforced.
This isn’t just a problem for social media communities. A bunch of business use boilerplate contracts and terms-of-service that again have no relation to how they actually operate.
All rules and laws are always open to interpretation and arbitrary. I heard that in a presentation by a historian of jurisprudence. She said that many people think that national law is clear but international isn’t but neither is. All can be (and are) used by the rich and powerful. Not only do they lobby in the process of the creation of laws but also in their enforcement.
Absolutely, and I really, really hate that. Admittedly I’m also autistic, so I probably take rules a bit more serious than many people. But still I am heavily confused by the concept that we live by laws every day which most of us never heard or read about. Especially in Germany, where I live, we have a lot of laws for everything, and 90% of them aren’t really enforced, but it still is theoretically expected of me to abide by them.
I had a post about dishwashers (from the Technology Connections guy) removed from the Technology community because it wasn’t “on topic.” I’m sorry if I missed that dishwashers have been around since the Bronze Age.
As someone who actually does read the rules for a bunch of places; they often have no relationship to what actually gets enforced.
This isn’t just a problem for social media communities. A bunch of business use boilerplate contracts and terms-of-service that again have no relation to how they actually operate.
All rules and laws are always open to interpretation and arbitrary. I heard that in a presentation by a historian of jurisprudence. She said that many people think that national law is clear but international isn’t but neither is. All can be (and are) used by the rich and powerful. Not only do they lobby in the process of the creation of laws but also in their enforcement.
Absolutely, and I really, really hate that. Admittedly I’m also autistic, so I probably take rules a bit more serious than many people. But still I am heavily confused by the concept that we live by laws every day which most of us never heard or read about. Especially in Germany, where I live, we have a lot of laws for everything, and 90% of them aren’t really enforced, but it still is theoretically expected of me to abide by them.
Just a strange concept overall.
I had a post about dishwashers (from the Technology Connections guy) removed from the Technology community because it wasn’t “on topic.” I’m sorry if I missed that dishwashers have been around since the Bronze Age.