'What do you expect to be illegal in 20 years?': 30+ People share the questionable entities they want regulated in the future

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Mar 13, 2023 5:00 PM EDT

One person wrote, "Please, ban telemarketing," in this fascinating thread of irritating legal things people hope will be illegal soon. 

From the very serious to the super silly, people have so many things that they think would benefit from being criminalized. One person wrote that they hope no one is allowed to reheat fish in the office microwave anymore! 

Others wrote that they hope to see serious societal issues addressed. For example, it would be nice to not have all our data stolen, and to not be recorded every moment of our lives. Plus, some drivers want to ban those extra bright headlights. Basically, people have tons of ideas for how to make the world a better place by making some legal things illegal. It's great food for thought!

After that, check out these people who tweeted their ideas, and then immediately deleted them – but as we all know, the internet never forgets!

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    Font - r/AskReddit Posted by u/AMRunner 169 19 What currently legal thing do you expect to be illegal in the next 20 years?
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    Font - cleon42 "We're trying to reach you about your car's extended warrantee..." 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*. (* If you don't understand how annoying those are, clearly you don't have an area code in a battleground state.)
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    Font - Jazz-like-hands Please god...social media algorithms that encourage repeat use (and other such "addiction engineering")
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    Font - varthalon Privacy Currently it has some very limited protections. Would not surprise me if in the future corporations manage to make it actually illegal to try to hide your information from their exploitation.
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    Font - [deleted] This is probably the best one stated here, and even if it is not made illegal, it might be practically impossible to engage in anything unless you give all the personal info they want.
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    Font - Gullible Detective Negative outcome on this, using a VPN to access say Netflix from another country.. I can see lobbying and corrupt politicians trying to enforce this (even if it would be a total crap shoot to enforce due to the nature of VPNs). OR VPN companies being required to store their logs locally and make them accessible to big gov or big corp.
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    Font - andercode Charities spending less than 5% of the money they are donated to the cause due to big "overheads".
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    Font - rologies Data privacy violations. Hopefully.
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    Font - [deleted] Hopefully those family vlog channels on YouTube 15.7k Share Own_Palpitation6056 YOU MEAN THE ONES WHERE THEY'RE ALL YELLING IN LARGE, NEARLY EMPTY HOUSES?!
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    Font - [deleted] I think demonetizing them would be a good start. No time to exploit your children when you have a real job.
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    Font - death_by_mustard My husband runs an ad agency and they do a lot of collaborations with "influencers", some of whom have been around since they were really young, were pushed into the business by their parents, or these family / mummy blog situations. He always says in 15- 20 years when these kids are adults we're gonna see some unprecedented court cases of kids basically suing their parents for flaunting them online against their will. Often these "influencers" (god I hate that word) are
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    Font - MissGalifrey Multi-level Marketing, a lot more people are seeing these for what they are
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    Human body - ColinNapier Telemarketing. God, please, ban telemarketing.
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    Font - 330212702 Subscription services for certain product features. It's ridiculous that one requires a sub service to use the key fob for his/her car.
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    Font - Staggeringpage8 Something I found out recently is that you can no longer just buy Photoshop as a one time purchase. There is now only a subscription service which means 2 things 1. You'll never be able to access Photoshop without an internet connection and 2. You'll pay more than t cost to get Photoshop as a program after a certain point. Edit: apparently it can still be used offline. I never bought it due to the subscription model and so I did not know for certain and only made an educat
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    Rectangle - liarliarplants4hire Government officials owning/trading individual stocks. Edit: read the post as "hoping" and not as legit expecting. Edit2: I was implying 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. 25.0k Share
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    Rectangle - goffcart18 2012 22 Companies buying single family homes, hopefully. 17.8k Share
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    Human body - SuvenPan Beauty contest featuring underage contestants.
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    Hair - TxGood If the game can be sold to children, it should not have microtransactions.
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    Human body - adamh909 Advertisements for sports gambling.
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    Font - olivantenvoet Online tracking. I mean why isn't this illegal already? If I would follow someone in real life and write down everything they do I will get arrested, but Google can do exactly this with no problems?
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    Font - TxGood Deepfakes
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    Hair - extrabees Skipping ads on YouTube
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    Font - 595b Helium filled balloons At least for recreational use
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    Font - 9000diggers Going to work while sick. Did pa ic teach us anything?
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    Gesture - WaCandor Single use plastic
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    Font - ryohazuki224 Hopefully, having a whole TV channel with the label of "News" but consisting of entirely fabricated alternative "facts" and mostly just really bad opinions. Basically, all corporate news channels. They aren't journalists, they are opinionated talking heads. And people take those opinions as facts, which is why we have such a misinformed segment of our country, and why these "news" stations don't do the one thing that journalists should do: Hold truth to power. Edit: To sum up
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    Font - threadsoffate2021 Any expectations of privacy. Anywhere. Even in your own home.
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    Font - [deleted] People using speakerphone in public
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    Human body - Fence Paling I hope so, and people blasting music on hikes from a speaker...
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    Human body - Shef43 Bright blue neon headlights (and good riddance)
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    Font - teoweald There is absolutely no way the internet is unregulated as it is now in 20 years
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    Human body - lyth Re-heating fish in the office microwave.
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