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Re:Crypto community slams ‘disastrous’ new amendment to big ... by prirun on Saturday August 07, 2021 @10:58AM (#28099040)
"It is baffling how lawmakers who have so little understanding of the technology write these things into law."

It's actually easy to explain: lawmakers don't write laws; lobbyists write laws and lawmakers rubberstamp them. Lawmakers don't even read laws, eg, they routinely vote on legislation that is hundreds of pages long that was modified and printed the night before they voted on it.

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Re:Crypto community slams ‘disastrous’ new amendment to big ... by JumpCrisscross on Saturday August 07, 2021 @02:03PM (#28100544)
> lawmakers don't write laws; lobbyists write laws and lawmakers rubberstamp them

You don’t want generalist lawyers to write laws. You don’t want specialists to write laws and then have generalists debate them, since apparently the current multi-week unfinished legislative process is rubber stamping to you.

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