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Re:California DMV Is Selling Drivers' Data to Private Invest... by throwaway0a5e on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @12:01PM (#24211862)
Maybe the goal is just to get people to skirt the law and accept the legal ambiguity hanging over their head that comes with that? They're basically saying "fine, be a small time car flipper if you want but know that you are giving the state the authority to destroy your life at any time on whim". This is what police states that want to have the power of arbitrary enforcement do.

I'm not saying CA is there yet but if you look at asinine policies from all the various states and their level of compliance it seems pretty clear that huge swaths of "perfectly fine when done reasonably" normal and common behaviors are more or less impossible to do while being legally in the clear. At what point does an unenforceable at scale policy become a backhanded infringement upon people's property rights?

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Re:California DMV Is Selling Drivers' Data to Private Invest... by grawprog on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @12:08PM (#24211968)
Reminds me of exactly the way the legal cannabis trade has gone in Canada.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/mar/18/cannabis-can...

Stupidly high fees and requirements for production or sale licences, no real legal way to acquire initial stock, countless hoops to jump through and continuous fees, over top the exorbitant tax rates have made it fairly difficult for anyone without a lot of initial capital to even begin.

Despite the fact there was already and still is a thriving underground grey market that gets mostly left alone until somebody needs to be made an example of.

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