Comment by brokenmachine

There was a great comment by joe_the_user on hn responding to this before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28261573

>Government by threatened legislation is much worse than government by actual legislation. Legislation is public, Legislation can be opposed, legislation can be reviewed by the court and so-forth. Allowing yourself (and your users) to controlled by threats of legislation is allowing democracy to be discarded.