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tomaskafka 3 days ago

> This is one of those weird laws that's on the books but is almost never enforced.

Let me introduce to the concept of rubber laws, a beloved tool of every totalitarian states. I now pass over to GPT:

“Rubber laws are vague catch-all offenses—like old vagrancy or ‘disorderly conduct’ laws on steroids. Because they’re so unclear, authorities can always say you broke one, and they use that flexibility to target inconvenient people. In the U.S., the Supreme Court generally strikes down such vague laws under the void-for-vagueness doctrine—but authoritarian systems keep them precisely because vagueness makes selective enforcement easy.”

GJim 2 days ago | parent [-]

> I now pass over to GPT

Please don't do this.

Non-attributed data from LLMs (known for bullshitting) is not helpful.