Comment by AnthonyMouse
1 year ago
"Every contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, is declared to be illegal."
1 year ago
"Every contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, is declared to be illegal."
What's a contract? What's trust, or conspiracy? What's trade, or commerce, or a foreign nation? What does "declared" mean?
This is the legal equivalent of "I can write Doom in one line, import doom; doom.start()".
> What's a contract? What's trust, or conspiracy? What's trade, or commerce, or a foreign nation? What does "declared" mean?
These have established meanings in existing law. What are you proposing as a plausible ambiguous interpretation of "declared"?
> This is the legal equivalent of "I can write Doom in one line, import doom; doom.start()".
That's two lines.
Also, it's not equivalent, because the original is actually a composition and not just a tautology. It's like saying that this one liner to find word frequencies in a file:
(from https://old.reddit.com/r/linuxadmin/comments/nq45r/what_are_...)
...isn't a single line of bash because you haven't defined fmt or sort or uniq or '|'.
> What are you proposing as a plausible ambiguous interpretation of "declared"?
Is your argument that the GDPR can be one line because "data" already has an established meaning in existing law? The GDPR is large because all these things needed to be defined, and there are tons of edge cases, not because the lawmaker figured they'd add some extra fluff in there.
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