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Re:FCC fines Swarm $900K for unauthorized satellite launch by bluGill on Friday December 21, 2018 @10:04AM (#18733677)
The problem is not all laws are moral. Regulatory capture is a thing. Many different people (often paid by a corporation) have come up with scheme that greatly harm their competition for no gain, yet made them sound good.
Re:FCC fines Swarm $900K for unauthorized satellite launch by ethbro on Friday December 21, 2018 @10:39AM (#18733935)
On the other hand, this is also one of the reasons I'd be hesitant to put garbage collection in place for laws.

Make it too easy to repeal laws, and anti-corporate interest laws that were difficult to pass find themselves quietly unwritten soon after.

A difficult game theory problem.

Re:FCC fines Swarm $900K for unauthorized satellite launch by jmcqk6 on Friday December 21, 2018 @11:31AM (#18734357)
There is a difference between law and morality and for good reason. There has never been massives groups of people that completely agree on right or wrong. Instead of trying to codify right and wrong, law is about defining how we can all get along despite those differences.

I'm not saying that regulatory capture is not a problem; that would be an absurd claim. But trying to make the law about right and wrong is not the solution.

Re:FCC fines Swarm $900K for unauthorized satellite launch by bluGill on Friday December 21, 2018 @12:36PM (#18734873)
What do you do about an unjust law though?
Re:FCC fines Swarm $900K for unauthorized satellite launch by jmcqk6 on Friday December 21, 2018 @02:20PM (#18735762)
Fight to change it. Laws are not set in stone for a purpose. They're supposed to evolve as they people governed by them evolve.