Yeah, there's two separate ways of thinking about law in general - mechanically about what the rules say, and politically about how the system ought to be influ

Yeah, there's two separate ways of thinking about law in general - mechanically about what the rules say, and politically about how the system ought to be influencing behavior. When the FTC or other prosecutorial/regulatory talks about charging people and alleging wrongdoing, they're making mechanical statements about how what they did violates the law. When they make decisions about who to investigate, charge, and/or fine, they're making political decisions about what constitutes wrongdoing.