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by dragonwriter 56 days ago
No, it wouldn't fix anything, but it would result it annoying periodic pro forma charges being filed.

When you take a measure and tie a control function to it, you make it a target. When you do that, Goodhart’s law applies, and when the specific connection is as simple as “maintaining a criminal law requires charging someone under it with at least X frequency”, the failure mode is obvious.