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Heh, this is the kind of "minor harm" regulation I'd typically associate with Britain rather than the US. Is the culture shifting, or is this just a California
by kristianc 1y ago
Heh, this is the kind of "minor harm" regulation I'd typically associate with Britain rather than the US. Is the culture shifting, or is this just a California thing?
- rootusrootus 1y agoI'd say mostly a California thing, though there are a number of states that sooner-or-later tend to adopt the same ideas that California leads on.
- jjice 1y agoI think California does this kind of thing a lot. A while back, they began requiring cancer warning at coffee shops [0]. I'm not in California, but growing up at least, I associated it was goofy small laws like this (along with not so goofy real laws as well). [0] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/starbucks-cancer-warning-judge-rules-on-coffee-carcinogen-acrylamide/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/starbucks-cancer-warning-judge-...
- dragonwriter 1y agoNote that your example is not a new “goofy small law”, but an industry losing a lawsuit because of complete failure to present relevant evidence in a lawsuit applying a long-established, big (but maybe still goofy) law to them.
- dragonwriter 1y agoThis particular California law applies a rule applied to TV by a 2010 US federal law to modern media that have largely replaced TV. (It is even named after the federal law.) So, as a broad kind of concern, no, it is not just a California thing.