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Yeah, lawmaking has a way of sticking around whether anybody likes it or not. Look how long it's taking to clean up the messes left by the PATRIOT act, or the D
by marssaxman 7y ago
Yeah, lawmaking has a way of sticking around whether anybody likes it or not. Look how long it's taking to clean up the messes left by the PATRIOT act, or the DMCA... it'll be literally decades, if ever, before all that damage can be undone. It takes so long that people just get used to it as the way things are, and adapt, and then it's even harder to change.
- dvtrn 7y agoWe’re also 40 some odd years from the enacting of FISA, which should be an acronym fresh on the minds of anyone who watches the intersection of technology and regulation as an example of the long tail of legislative scope-creep w/rt NSA programs and activities.