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They may be anti-consumer garbage, but they're black-letter law, and repealing them would require violating international treaties. So they're not going anywher
by bitwize 2y ago
They may be anti-consumer garbage, but they're black-letter law, and repealing them would require violating international treaties. So they're not going anywhere.
- nyx 2y agowhether this is a positive thing is left as an exercise to the reader :)
- CamperBob2 2y agorepealing them would require violating international treaties Yeeeeah, about that...
- -__---____-ZXyw 2y agoHah. I chuckled at that too. International treaties are de facto legally binding only for non-U.S. countries, surely we can all agree. The U.S. must be free to break any treaty whenever it sees fit, which is the price of being the leader of the free world... or something.
- pessimizer 2y agoThose are treaties that the US lobbied into existence, and can ignore out of existence. The reason they're not going anywhere is that the people who own the rights to everything want it that way, and pay people in government to keep it that way.
- account42 2y agoIt's like the local EU politicians saying they have no choice to implement an unpopular law due to EU regulations when their own party took part in getting those regulations passed in the first place. Always good to have a scape goat to avoid accountability.
- immibis 2y agoPeople break laws. "That's a law, therefore you can't break it" is a false statement.
- account42 2y agoThe right to self-determination cannot be given up in treaties.