This feels like building codes in the US, you can read the law but the law points to expensive to acquire materials required to comply. This should be illegal a

This feels like building codes in the US, you can read the law but the law points to expensive to acquire materials required to comply. This should be illegal and people should be pissed. I don’t care if lawmakers contract private industry to write standards (within reason, there are some perverse incentives at play, but I digress), however, laws and all supporting materials need to be free to read and open to all for a free and fair society. We spend so much effort regulating and gatekeeping under the guise of safety and security but we are achieving neither. Information is power and anytime we as humans have had significant information asymmetry, there exists an out-group that does not have access and due to this restriction, have diminished power. I’ve likened closed building codes to the way the Catholic Church ran in the Middle Ages. Only the clergy could read Latin and found they could spew all sorts of nonsense culminating in “if you want a guaranteed trip to Heaven, pay us.” Which sounds a lot like, “if you want to pass building inspection, pay us.” Organizations (and lawmakers who enable them) that engage in this sort of sanctioned rent-seeking should be dismantled and we should not tolerate them in our society.