Twitter says it will restrict retweeting world leaders who break rules

Re:Twitter says it will restrict retweeting world leaders wh... by thaumasiotes on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @01:04AM (#21267217)

> in general laws exist because people (or at least, the legislative body) wanted them and can have them enforced.

I think it's actually more common for laws to exist because people wanted them despite enforcement being impossible than because people wanted them and could have them enforced.

Consider things like the Jewish law that a child who disobeys his parents must be stoned to death.

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Re:Twitter says it will restrict retweeting world leaders wh... by coldtea on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @04:50AM (#21268349)

>Consider things like the Jewish law that a child who disobeys his parents must be stoned to death.

Is this a typical "more common" example of law though, or some curiosity from antiquity?

How many modern laws are wanted "despite enforcement being impossible"? (Which as per your example, doesn't even mean "enforcement being impossible" but rather "enforcement being undesirable" or something). We have some laws that we can't enforce in the sense of there's no easy way to practically check if somebody broken it (e.g. pirating some software). But most laws we can and do enforce them if the perpetrator is caught.

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