There should be a name for deliberately making a big fuss of following every regulation as expansively as possible to prove a point; inverse civil disobedience, civil obedience maybe?
Re:Why has Google cast me into oblivion?
by shakethemonkey on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @07:12PM
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There is, it's called "work-to-rule."
Somewhat ironically some countries have laws that make work-to-rule (usually phrased in law as malicious compliance) as illegal.
There used to be, but it isn't PC: "white mutiny".
See also http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/79793/phrase-for-...
Or should they just implement it as broadly and bluntly as possible, lowering their risk of noncompliance, reducing their costs of evaluating each case, while increasing the chance that people will start to grasp the negative consequences they argued about to the court?
Despite the near term harms, if we're worried more about the long run, there's a case to be made for the latter...