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Re:Citi to Refund $330M to Credit Card Customers It Overcharged by jellicle on Friday February 23, 2018 @04:27PM (#16449781)
> Eldridge

What actually happened is that he put nets near the whales, and then left one of them entangled in the cut off nets (so, probably killed this member of an endangered species due to his recklessness).

http://www.capecodtimes.com/article/20091001/NEWS/910010317

> Texas

Again, the regulation here is that IF YOU ARE INVESTIGATING COMPUTERS, you need a PI license. If you're swapping video cards or reflowing solder or whatever, you don't.

> Philadelphia

There isn't any blogging tax. https://www.wired.com/2010/08/five-myths-about-philadelphias...

I've found that libertarian blogs which have these stories about oppressive regulation are invariably - 100% - lying. I've never found a true story about oppressive regulation. The reality is, no one is sitting around rubbing their hands together and thinking about all the ways to oppress the public for no reason.

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Re:Citi to Refund $330M to Credit Card Customers It Overcharged by TeMPOraL on Saturday February 24, 2018 @07:39AM (#16453014)
Similar situation happens with the examples of "ridiculous" regulations in the EU. I've checked a few of them out in the past, and each time they turned out to be some bullshit spun by UK's tabloids that later got republished as factual by the news portals on the continent.
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