The digital world differs – a controlled environment
The digital world differs – a controlled environment
It is at this point that a stark difference between the analogue and the digital worlds can be noted. In the analogue world regulation may prohibit a processing (an action); however it does not, and cannot, control whether the processing will take place or not—individuals may break the law. For example, a driving speed limit may be imposed, but cars allow drivers to go over it; if they do, the law intervenes only after the act (if at all, meaning if it ever learns of it). The situation in the digital world is different, however. In the digital world there is always a way to prohibit a certain processing operation from ever happening—in the example above, this would be to simply not allow a (digital) car to travel faster than the speed limit on a (digital) street. Or an artificial Being could be stopped from having access to a prohibited processing operation.
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