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The Orwell Act: Proposed legislation names shall henceforth be limited to the following verbs and adjectives: verbs: prevent, promote adjectives: good, ungood
by WiseWeasel 8y ago
The Orwell Act: Proposed legislation names shall henceforth be limited to the following verbs and adjectives:
verbs: prevent, promote
adjectives: good, ungood
Edit: More seriously, laws should be named with the same rules that apply to good commit messages, concisely describing the change being made. Or maybe they're more like pull requests... point is, you should be able to go down the list of them and get a good feel for the activity.
- jjoonathan 8y agoYou can already do that: just assume a bill does the opposite of what it says it does.
- sli 8y agoOftentimes, it even does the opposite of what the given description says. For example, there was a solar law on the ballot in Florida in 2016 that was written by oil and gas companies, that basically would have created a charge just for having solar panels. The new cost was to simply subsidize energy companies losing revenue from people moving to solar. Predictably, the bill was sold pretty heavily as a pro-solar bill meant to make solar more competitive. Much in the same way anti-NN is often sold as a method of making it easier for smaller ISPs to compete with the giga-ISPs. The word "wytai" from the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows comes to mind when I think about how much of the US political process is based almost entirely on deception and tricking people into voting your way.
- InitialLastName 8y ago> Predictably, the bill was sold pretty heavily as a pro-solar bill meant to make solar more competitive. You can make something "more competitive" in two ways; kneecapping a leading industry does just as much "making competitive" as lifting up a tailing industry.