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Having engineers read and interpret regulation personally is not a remotely sane legal risk management strategy. Read the thing on your own time if you're curious, but the engineering work should start with specialized outside counsel/consultants and percolate down to engineers as company policy via the CTO.

You're onto something, though: in a corporate environment, the word "compliance" is a magic spell that disables all critical thinking skills within earshot.

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> You're onto something, though: in a corporate environment, the word "compliance" is a magic spell that disables all critical thinking skills within earshot.

Is that a bad thing? The vast majority of regulations exist because someone's "critical thinking" went too far in the name of profit.

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>The vast majority of regulations

Your mistake is assuming that the idea being sold internally under the heading "compliance" is required by, or even tangentially related to, an actual regulation.