> Is this a malicious practice? No, certainly not yet anyway, and I'd agree that wasn't a great phrasing on my part. I'm still not sure what the right phrase w

> Is this a malicious practice? No, certainly not yet anyway, and I'd agree that wasn't a great phrasing on my part. I'm still not sure what the right phrase would be for whatever nonsense people/companies/governments get up to before anyone gets around to making it illegal. I realize the specifics here are mostly insane (as I acknowledged in my original comment), I just don't think we should try to punish it too hard, since it's (very) abstractly a step toward something we'd like to see more of. And the resulting legislation even sounds like (what would be) a level-headed response to the threat (if it was real), which is pretty rare even on a good day.