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Re:38 People are looking at this post right now by smitty1e on Sunday October 20, 2019 @04:36PM (#21306925)
How would you write a law to make it illegal?

The better remedy is precisely what is occurring: someone calls the Emperor's bluff, and we all get on HN and engage in cheeky humor.

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Re:38 People are looking at this post right now by throwaway66920 on Sunday October 20, 2019 @04:38PM (#21306948)
False advertising?
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Re:38 People are looking at this post right now by smitty1e on Sunday October 20, 2019 @09:34PM (#21308684)
How are you actually going to prove the state of a distributed system in an legally actionable way?
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Re:38 People are looking at this post right now by jrochkind1 on Sunday October 20, 2019 @10:20PM (#21308870)
In the OP case, the evidence is not a problem, right? There's nothing specially about "legally actionable", you just need to convince a judge or jury that it happened, as with any other fact. In this case, with the JS code cited.
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