The same could be said about other vulnerabilities like mysql injections. The difference in this case is that there was a government proposal that was legitimately passed, but it was unpopular with the community as votes are not 1 per person but rather based off how much you have financially invented into buying voting rights.

In real life this would be the equivalent of buying enough shares of a company to make unpopular changes. Hostile takeovers aren't illegal AFAIK.