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Re:Nobody reads privacy policies, senator wants lawmakers to... by ckocagil on Thursday June 18, 2020 @10:01PM (#23570269)
In an ideal world unused laws would be scrapped and complicated laws would be simplified. One could even come up with a criterion: the entire law book should be readable in 10 hours by a layperson.

None of us know which of our actions constitute a crime. Even worse, in many cases neither does anyone until someone goes to a court and a precedent is set. This is a terrible system.

Re:Nobody reads privacy policies, senator wants lawmakers to... by kazagistar on Friday June 19, 2020 @08:18AM (#23573670)
Naw, you can have regulations for specific industry. They just wouldn't be relevant unless you are in such an industry, and should be organized enough that you can read and understand them when going into an industry, and have clear boundaries of when they become relevant in the simplified general law.

Also, the concept conflicts with the idea of local government and basically requires a large central world government. I feel like thr idea of simplified laws is mostly an impractical pipe dream propagated by people who don't like that they can't dump poison into local rivers or sell people scams that harm them.

Here is how we can get a proper measure of the problem: how often are people harmed by complex contracts they signed but didn't understand, vs how often are people harmed by laws they didn't know existed? And how often were those people doing something meaningfully harmful to someone else and should have known better on basic moral grounds?