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StreamBright 2019-09-25 12:59:10+00:00 | [–] update item (on: Google wins privacy case: ‘Right to be forgotten’ applies only in EU )

>> This law is really terrible

Why?

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beedogs | karma 4173 | avg karma 2.68 | 2016-05-02 19:15:54 | [–] similar comments (on: WhatsApp, Used by 100M Brazilians, Shut Down Nationwide Today by a Single Judge )

> Laws are laws.

This is horrible reasoning.

subjectsigma | karma 745 | avg karma 1.09 | 2022-08-09 15:29:10 | [–] similar comments (on: GitHub deleted accounts of people who contributed to Tornado Cash repos )

> This is a law.

> No, it is not.

> That's a pretty uncharitable interpretation.

jolmg | karma 5592 | avg karma 2.09 | 2020-06-26 04:08:00+00:00 | [–] similar comments (on: When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com )

> Seems not that legal

> That seems incredibly illegal.

Why would it be illegal? I understand that it's unfair, but what law would be broken here?

president | karma 1516 | avg karma 1.74 | 2019-04-09 23:08:56 | [–] similar comments (on: Phone Addicts Are the New Drunk Drivers )

> It is ridiculous how lenient the laws are.

I think it is because people who make the laws are breaking them too.

woah | karma 10252 | avg karma 3.02 | 2023-08-28 15:18:38 | [–] similar comments (on: When your classmates threaten you with felony charges )

> This seems like a problem with the existing law, if that's how it works.

> I understand why you feel that way, but it's not the way the law works.

OP was saying they don't think the law should work that way.

SergeAx | karma 2688 | avg karma 1.5 | 2023-08-24 05:12:28 | [–] similar comments (on: Cash payments above €3000 to be outlawed in Netherlands )

> shitty laws don't deserve to be followed

You mean, you have to be ready to be punished for breaqking shitty laws just to point to their shittiness.

pixl97 | karma 15630 | avg karma 1.96 | 2022-07-02 10:53:58 | [–] similar comments (on: Google will delete location history data for abortion clinic visits )

>How can that work as a law?

It cannot, and they don't care that it cannot. The cruelty is the point.

dsfyu404ed | karma 7424 | avg karma 0.98 | 2019-10-15 05:44:59 | [–] similar comments (on: Apple: We're not handing over Safari URLs to Tencent, just IP addresses )

>it's a ridiculous law

It's par for the course. Laws in response to moral panics tend to suck and inconvenience reasonable people while having simple workarounds.

Terr_ | karma 13722 | avg karma 2.85 | 2023-07-22 19:30:53 | [–] similar comments (on: I am dying of squamous cell carcinoma, and potential treatments are out of reach )

> Laws against consumption? A terrible idea.

Why would it be terrible to prohibit biochemical slavery and mind-control?

troad | karma 1922 | avg karma 4.12 | 2024-06-14 12:26:53 | [–] similar comments (on: Land value tax in online games and virtual worlds (2022) )

> ...because in small scale, instead, would be acceptable?!

Because it’s generally a bad idea to legislate for over a third of a billion of humans on the basis of rare freak accidents.

troupo | karma 2477 | avg karma 1.16 | 2024-02-06 04:37:09 | [–] similar comments (on: EU right to repair: Sellers liable for 1 year after products are fixed )

> The law didn't take into consideration that people are awful

Okay. I always ask this: what's your solution to this?

aeorgnoieang | karma 1298 | avg karma 1.57 | 2015-11-05 10:03:09 | [–] similar comments (on: Text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership )

> People sometimes forget that laws are pointless if they are not enforceable.

Or worse than pointless; actively harmful.

justinclift | karma 11995 | avg karma 1.81 | 2024-04-29 19:31:52 | [–] similar comments (on: The Internet Archive's last-ditch effort to save itself )

> When laws are bad, people should thumb their nose at them

Sure. But use some intelligence and risk management when you're doing it.

This was just outright stupidity, and there's no excuse for it. :( :( :(

scott_w | karma 2365 | avg karma 2.24 | 2022-11-14 04:55:19 | [–] similar comments (on: Meta fires a software engineer two days after he relocated from India to Canada )

> is beyond shitty.

Something being legal doesn't make it moral.

ellisv | karma 1021 | avg karma 2.26 | 2023-06-26 10:23:01 | [–] similar comments (on: Oregon finally legalizes pumping your own gas )

> The only excuse for the law being around so long was that it created jobs. Which was lame reasoning.

This was my understanding and I agree it is bad reasoning. It might have created jobs, but certainly not good ones.

rtlfe | karma 974 | avg karma 3.58 | 2020-10-15 19:49:19+00:00 | [–] similar comments (on: Cruise (GM) receives permit for fully driverless cars )

> If you don't expect and accept your local variation of whatever these exceptions are you are going to have a very bad time.

As it turns out I do expect this behavior and still have a very bad time. These laws are not frivolous, and violating them is extremely dangerous.

maym86 | karma 1351 | avg karma 3.49 | 2018-07-26 20:08:38+00:00 | [–] similar comments (on: Facebook finally hands over leave campaign Brexit ads )

> If laws protect people. more laws = better? What is the downside of passing any law?

No this is a question about a specific law. Making it a general point about all laws is disingenuous. Why do anything ever?

blitzar | karma 5877 | avg karma 2.08 | 2022-10-04 10:31:45 | [–] similar comments (on: EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of 2024 )

> Why do people think it is a good thing to have this enforced by law is beyond me.

School shootings - why do we have to enforce not commiting school shootings with the stupid law, surely everyone can get together and agreee murdering a 10 year old for fun is evil and just not do it?

astura | karma 9774 | avg karma 1.97 | 2018-09-11 15:44:01 | [–] similar comments (on: What Companies Mean by Culture Fit )

>why not?

Because it's illegal?

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