04-05-2012, 09:39 AM
(04-04-2012, 04:04 PM)Bolty Wrote: 1) Politician sees hot-button highly emotional political issue, e.g. "cyberbullying."
2) Politician creates law regarding hot-button issue to look pro-active.
3) Law passes because it's political suicide to go against such a law.
4) At some point, highly publicized case comes up against the law and someone is arrested for it.
5) Case goes before trial, where it is shot down for being unconstitutional.
6) Everyone loses, because the resultant trials cost the government a lot of money, which taxpayers ultimately wind up footing.
Not that I'm cynical or anything, but that's how this crap always goes.
Well who can blame them for trying? They know that every ridiculous privacy breaking anti-piracy laws get passed.
The only thing missing is a few big multinationals that say they loose money because of this....if they find those you will have a new law in no-time.