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This take get touted out every time the IA CDL thing comes up, and it's baffling because it's flat out wrong. Many, many, laws get changed because someone bring
by LordDragonfang 3y ago
This take get touted out every time the IA CDL thing comes up, and it's baffling because it's flat out wrong. Many, many, laws get changed because someone brings it to court by breaking it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience
And it's not limited to civil disobedience. Hell, the single most touted decision in internet rhetoric, Citizens United, was based on an organization breaking the law.
There are many reasons the IA doing this was ill-advised, but "you can't change the law by breaking it" flat out isn't one.
- riku_iki 3y ago> laws get changed because someone brings it to court by breaking it. they probably get changed because lawmakers noticed the issue. Breaking the law and going to court not only way to draw lawmakers attention, and probably not the most efficient one.