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this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2024
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How does this work legally? The article mentions that it can't be enforced by police. And I'm sure that it's also not really in the power of local villages to ban checking a WhatsApp in a public park.
It doesn't. It's a right wing attempt to generate social friction and to get attention by focusing on rage bait topics for their prospective voters
Social pressure might be enough to enforce it.
Consider that it’s a legal obligation for Belgians to vote in elections, punishable by fines. Even though that would be easily enforceable, the Belgians are hardly enforcing it. Yet Belgium still has the highest voter turnout in the world (87%).
The reason: some cultures have a strong tendency to respect some laws regardless of the threat of enforcement as the law sets a standard for respectable behavior and civic duty.
A majority of people might obey this law a majority of the time simply because they would rather not be seen as a disrespectful pest.