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Comment by locknitpicker

9 hours ago

> To begin with, no it isn't. There are a lot of existing regulations that serve no legitimate purpose.

Citation needed. Specially referring to TFA.

You know what there is a lot of? Organizations trying to push onto the public hazardous and subpar products. Those are the ones mostly affected by regulation, because that's precisely what regulation is designed to shield society from.

So it comes as no surprise that there are companies complaining that regulation prevents them from doing business. That's by design, and represents a much needed market pressure to prevent bad actors from screwing everything and everyone around them.

> Citation needed. Specially referring to TFA.

Explain the legitimate purpose of requiring a device that runs on batteries to be tested for emissions, not just once but for every subspecies of truck you want to use it with.

> You know what there is a lot of? Organizations trying to push onto the public hazardous and subpar products. Those are the ones mostly affected by regulation, because that's precisely what regulation is designed to shield society from.

You're confusing the nominal intention of the regulations with their actual effect. The map is not the territory.