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Re:US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during ai... by randallsquared on Sunday July 26, 2026 @10:53PM (#49064691)
> U.S. law though is highly non-autistic

When the judge and officers of the court agree with me, the law is reasonable and just, but when they do not agree with me, the law is arbitrary and capricious. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Having the law be whatever it's thought to be by police, prosectors, judges, and others can lead to obvious injustices, but there's been no serious attempt to remove ambiguity in any country's legal code as far as I know.

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Re:US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during ai... by aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA on Sunday July 26, 2026 @11:00PM (#49064729)
It’s impossible to remove (even just nearly) all ambiguity.

People already complain that there are too many laws on the books.

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Re:US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during ai... by patrick451 on Monday July 27, 2026 @01:31AM (#49065494)
If there were fewer laws, there would be less to disambiguate.
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Re:US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during ai... by inigyou on Monday July 27, 2026 @07:51AM (#49068238)
Look at this week's codeberg drama. They wrote a simple law like "no projects that are mostly AI" and all of HN was like "how dare they be so vague? I need to know what percentage of my characters are allowed to be AI! 49.999% is good, right?"
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