The concept is hard regulatory power vs soft regulatory power.
In some areas of Spain, the government has created a program for the economic migrants arriving by the literal boatload. Rent guarantee. See, they're economic migrants, so surely they should be coddled!
Anyways, the rent guarantee is that if one of these migrants can't afford their rent the government pays
Rent out entire apartment blocks for the maximum amount of the rent guarantee to a bunch of these economic migrants that won't pay the rent themselves as that would involve being responsible and productive members of society, aka suckers.
Unintended consequences of Hard Regulatory Power. By guaranteeing the rent, now none of the migrants are paying rent.
Yeah.
Soft regulatory power is the use of laws and coercion with the tools such as agencies already available to push a desired outcome.
The use of anti-trust laws THAT ALREADY EXIST and HAVE BEEN USED TO GREAT EFFECT PREVIOUSLY in order to break up the internet tech giants.
You gave up privacy the minute you turned on your smartphone this morning.
You gave up privacy the minute you used Internet Explorer or Google Chrome or Firefox or any other web browser.
Actually... they might not be able to.
"Letters and sealed packages of this kind in the mail are as fully guarded from examination and inspection, except as to their outward form and weight, as if they were retained by the parties forwarding them in their own domiciles"
Protip: none of those were fucking letters. NOTHING that went through the goddamn post office. Just phone calls and emails going through PRIVATE FUCKING COMPANIES.
Just food for fucking thought for the hamster wheels in your brains. If said hamsters are still alive. For some of you.... well... I doubt that.
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Soft regulatory power.
The modernization of an already existing federal institution. For what purpose? To provide an alternative that forces other companies to model their behavior after.
Gmail, Yahoo, Facebook, etc, all have a choice.
No new laws. No new regulatory agencies. Just some modernization and sprucing up.
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