s/very US centric/realistic/ A law allows what it allows. 'Let's pass a law that sets a maximum penalty of death, but promise just to impose $10 fines for the

s/very US centric/realistic/ A law allows what it allows. 'Let's pass a law that sets a maximum penalty of death, but promise just to impose $10 fines for the first decade' is a recipe for disaster. A law which purports to protect privacy but instead demands that any visitor be permitted to rewrite your year-old web server logs is beyond Orwellian.