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Pack your pyjamas, Zuck: US bill threatens execs with prison for data failures

ThatOne Silver badge
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> You're raising a completely pointless and wrong objection.

But one you'll hear a lot as a counter-argument against this law. Along with "it will make the poorest among us even poorer (and the sickest even sicker)" and of course the ubiquitous "won't someone think of the children (alternatively, the terrorists)?".

Why? In politics arguments don't need to have any connexion to reality as we know it. They just need to trigger enough FUD to create a "subject = BAD!!!" association.

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