California Man Fined $1k for Drawing Lines on Maps

Re:California Man Fined $1k for Drawing Lines on Maps by mLuby on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @11:35PM (#33186877)

I like the idea but predict legislatures would enact keep-alive bills that `renew *.law`.

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Re:California Man Fined $1k for Drawing Lines on Maps by llanowarelves on Thursday October 13, 2022 @01:40AM (#33187645)

Then you push back on that. You don't have to give up, it's not all-or-nothing.

That's sort of the history of the law. You outlaw parasitism, and then people "innovate" their methods to get around that and you outlaw that too. Hopefully suppressing them more than they "innovate".

You dont just give up and let them create new types of (yet to be classified) crime just because they will always want to do it anyway.

We can predict they will (as you've shown), which means we need to do even more suppression of their crime.

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Re:California Man Fined $1k for Drawing Lines on Maps by Tangurena2 on Thursday October 13, 2022 @09:15AM (#33190541)

Knowing our legislature, they'd be done with voice vote and no accountability at all.

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Re:California Man Fined $1k for Drawing Lines on Maps by dylan604 on Thursday October 13, 2022 @12:06AM (#33187112)

but would that law not also be up for sunset review as well?

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