The problem is they're trying to filter the production of a group of unrelated organizations, without any recognized authority to do so. The vagueness of the principle reflects the intractability of the goal, in the current environment.
This is key. It erodes trust in institutions, in this case the government itself. I personally wish it weren't permitted in the first place, but revoking the permit afterwards is the worst possible outcome.
It's (to me) clearly non-compliant with its intention. It's now for courts to decide whether that is the case, or for politicians to fix the law to patch this backdoor if there was one. But it will be fixed.
Yeah, I'm having a definition problem with this one too. It appears that what they did was not prohibited by the system. Maybe not the most ethical way to go about things, but not explicitly prohibited.
As explained in the dissent, they literally have to delegate the kind of authority in question here. It’s the hostile-genie problem: you can’t close all the loopholes in some iron-clad unambiguous way in finite space.
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