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I suspect Meyer's work is in part preparatory to lawfare in order to force websites to pay for lawyerly services. The letter is akin to a fire insurance company
by adolph 5y ago
I suspect Meyer's work is in part preparatory to lawfare in order to force websites to pay for lawyerly services. The letter is akin to a fire insurance company knocking on doors while carrying a torch.
"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive."
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2019/12/19/intentions/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2019/12/19/intentions/
- UncleMeat 5y agoFrankly, that's stupid. He's got a PhD and a JD from Stanford and has chosen a faculty position and has done a nontrivial amount of unpaid work for various privacy rights organizations. He obviously isn't motivated by money.
- adolph 5y agoFrankly you are great at knocking a strawman down. Jonathan Mayer likely has some motivation for those efforts. I made no claim to the motivation being remunerative or not. Do you have an alternative hypothesis of a motivation other than preparation for a "public-interest" lawfare campaign?
- UncleMeat 5y agoActual legitimate research to understand existing privacy legislation, which can be used by policymakers to iterate and ensure that legislation is effective without being wasteful.
- kortilla 5y agoBut that’s not how laws are written. Do you think he’s that naive?
- UncleMeat 5y agoHe previously worked in a senator’s office so I do suspect he knows how the sausage is made. And yeah, the staff writing bills do look at this sort of material. It is just one part of a bigger picture but it isn’t just throwing research into a void.