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Then the regulator will take them to court and case law will disambiguate the boundaries. Counterintuitively it’s the very prescriptive laws that allow compani

by owisd 4y ago

Then the regulator will take them to court and case law will disambiguate the boundaries. Counterintuitively it’s the very prescriptive laws that allow companies to more easily come up with loopholes because legislators can’t possibly conceive of every scenario in advance, whereas the vague laws allow the courts to decide each new situation case by case as it arises.

AnthonyMouse 4y ago
> Counterintuitively it’s the very prescriptive laws that allow companies to more easily come up with loopholes because legislators can’t possibly conceive of every scenario in advance, whereas the vague laws allow the courts to decide each new situation case by case as it arises. If the law uses the words "purposely harm the network" instead of "harm the network" then it's harder to claim it applies to services that e.g. increase congestion by sending a lot of legitimate data. Being clearer narrows the scope of the excuses their lawyers can emit.