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Re:Tether is under undisclosed SEC investigation, FOIA blocked by user-the-name on Friday September 24, 2021 @01:00PM (#28645032)
> In practical terms, who's stopping them?

Courts? Pretty basic principle of how democratic systems are built.

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Re:Tether is under undisclosed SEC investigation, FOIA blocked by Kranar on Friday September 24, 2021 @05:25PM (#28648027)
Not so, at least in the U.S. and Canada. As per "Chevron deference" the courts are bound to defer to regulatory agencies over how to interpret ambiguous areas of the law:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevron_U.S.A.,_Inc._v._Natura....

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