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Enforcement is just a technicality.

• contingencies 9y ago
  In China and many other countries, rules are typically so numerous, draconian or fuzzy that you are nominally constantly breaking something. If the authorities want to alter your behavior, they call in the specter of potential enforcement to encourage behavioral change. On the one hand this seems horrible - shifting sands, constant unknowns, zero security - but in reality it's kind of liberating - less need to hire lawyers and asking for forgiveness is tolerated. The gap between enforcement and law is precisely where most people seek to operate, because it typically creates additional efficiencies. In short, enforcement is law. Or to rephrase this in the words of Snowden - Policy is a one-way ratchet that only loosens over time.