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What does checking whether companies actually complied with a law that's been published for years have to do with precision? (Lack of precision tends to be a U
by izacus 3y ago
What does checking whether companies actually complied with a law that's been published for years have to do with precision?
(Lack of precision tends to be a US legal weasel word actually meaning "you didn't leave us loopholes to exploit".)
- kristjansson 3y agoA company will obey the law _exactly_ to the point it's binding. Intentionally making the boundary of law fuzzy[1] with the hope of restraining actors to its _inner_ margin is foolish; they're going to push to the absolute _outer_ margin of plausible interpretations, and find out where the line really is when they get fined. [1]: sorry sorry sorry, predicating an entire system of law on 'I mean when I mean not what I say'