Comment by ToucanLoucan
Comment by ToucanLoucan 5 hours ago
You're overestimating how much thought governments put into things.
Governments are just organizations and organizations are made of people. We see plenty of folly in the private sector; the government can do it too, don't you worry. Arguably they can do folly in ways the private sector only dreams of, what with being funded by the taxpayer.
The org is enforcing the law as written. The law, as written, is fucking stupid. Ergo the enforcement actions that derive from it themselves look fucking stupid.
Sure, governments are organizations made up of people. But they're hierarchical organizations. There are really only a handful of people who matter when it comes to making decisions.
They are enforcing the law, but why pick out 4chan? Because everyone has heard of 4chan.