Can you think of anything that is currently legal but should be illegal? What do you think will be illegal in the next 20 years? Internet users want these things to be illegal:
1. CALL AND SPAM INDUSTRY
“We’re trying to reach you about your car’s extended warranty.”
“Seriously, the entire cell-spam industry needs to go. Everything from scam calls (please don’t donate to your local “police association”) to those obnoxious political SMS texts*”
“Make robo-dialing illegal, and require that insurance companies, banks, etc. give people an option to talk to a human in the initial menu.”
2. PRIVACY
“Privacy. Currently, it has some minimal protections.
Would not surprise me if in the future corporations manage to make it illegal to try to hide your information from their exploitation.”
3. FAMILY VLOG CHANNELS
“Hopefully, those family vlog channels on YouTube.”
“Ryans toys is the well-known one. It’s where the parents exploit their children by making them do product placement will all these toys for youtube. But you don’t see actual familial interaction; it’s all a plasticky gimmick.”
“It blows my mind that we don’t already have laws concerning child exploitation through social media. There’s a lot of money to be made and, sadly, some people care more about that than the safety and privacy of their children.”
4. CHILD MARRIAGE
“Child marriage. Tennessee is trying to erase the legal age of requirements for marriage”
5. MULTI-LEVEL MARKETING
6. GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS OWNING STOCKS
“Government officials owning/trading individual stocks. I was implying the use of blind trusts / broad index funds (opposed to individual stocks). I agree; it won’t happen (in practice). A strong transparency law would be a step in the right direction.”
7. COMMERICAL FOR DRUGS
“Illegal in many countries already.”
“I don’t understand it to begin with. When I go to the doctor, THEY recommend the medication.. because they’re the doctor. Do people go to the doctor and say, “Hey, I saw a commercial for Cymbalta; can I have a prescription for it?” They must since they’re advertising to SOMEONE, but it’s just weird to me. I assume the doctor knows better than I do.”
8. USING YOUR SPERM FOR IVF
“While we are talking about non-consensual medical procedures, it better be illegal for IVF doctors to use their own semen by then.
There’s a grown donor baby on TikTok that talks all about how she has like 70 siblings because her doctor used his own semen when doing artificial insemination, even when the patient brought in the semen they wanted to use. In something like 30 states, that’s completely legal.”
9. PELVIC EXAMINATION ON UNCONSCIOUS WOMEN FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES
I believe it is currently legal in 30 states for doctors to do pelvic exams on unconscious women without their consent for “educational and teaching purposes”. This better change soon.”
10. CHILD BEAUTY PAGEANTS
“Hopefully, child beauty pageants.”
11. LEAKING INTIMATE TAPES FOR REVENGE
“Revenge Porn can be found all across the United States.”
“Many states have passed laws against this, but some have yet to do so. Within the next 25 years, all states will most likely have laws against it, and/or there will be a federal law prohibiting it.”
12. RAPE LAWS FOR MEN
“I hope that in the next 20 years a woman raping a man is classed as Rape under UK law, because currently it isn’t.”
“The same problem exists in my state (GA) here in the US. I was assaulted by a woman, and it completely derailed my life, with most of the worst stuff that happened occurred because I reported it. I was told over and over again by university officials, police, and other figures of authority that, ultimately, all that mattered was that I was a man and she was a woman.
I was eventually expelled expressly for reporting and speaking out about the situation, and I have been fighting a legal battle with the university ever since over whether men can even be assaulted and how they handled my and other people’s experiences.”
13. ADS FOR SPORTS GAMBLING
“Advertisements for sports gambling.”
“Well, it just got legalized in the usa, so they’re gonna get worse.”
14. ONLINE TRACKING
15. SINGLE-USE PLASTIC
“My hope, small hope: product packaging using combined materials. For example, plastic is glued to paper in a way that is impossible to separate. This makes recycling almost impossible.”
16. FIREWORKS
17. VAPING
“Vaping in the United States. They’d rather have us smoke cigarettes.”
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