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Re:Google faces first investigation by its European lead aut... by seanmcdirmid on Friday May 24, 2019 @12:47PM (#20003297)
> about the spirit of the law while rule by law is what you want.

And the difference is? Those are both very subjective.

The EU could get around this by not writing crappy laws, but I guess this is why we have courts.

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Re:Google faces first investigation by its European lead aut... by anoncake on Friday May 24, 2019 @03:41PM (#20004680)
> And the difference is? Those are both very subjective.

Compared to what is the letter of the law subjective? Pure math?

> The EU could get around this by not writing crappy laws, but I guess this is why we have courts.

People not making mistakes and having infinite foresight would solve so many problems. Probably not the one of natural language being fuzzy, though.

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