Proposed Legislation Debate

Commenters express skepticism about passing legislation to solve issues, frequently requesting links to specific bills and questioning their effectiveness or details.

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UncleOxidant May 15, 2023 View on HN

The problem is that "pass legislation" part.

pteredactyl Jun 29, 2018 View on HN

This sounds reasonable. Will you post a link to the legislation?

IncRnd Jul 7, 2021 View on HN

What could possibly go wrong with this legislation?

pvg Aug 1, 2022 View on HN

Proposed legislation typically doesn't work that well as an HN post/topic:https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

cbzbc Oct 2, 2020 View on HN

It's possible this is for legislative reasons rather than anything else.

rrhyne Jan 18, 2017 View on HN

See my top level comment regarding legislation in progress to fix the issue.

FridayoLeary May 4, 2025 View on HN

No. I'm just a casual HN user and i assume few people currently in power have any interest in amending a law they only just passed. Also unfortunately there are other bills that this government is passing/wants to pass that will affect me far worse then this one, so whatever ettention i do have is directed at them.

dougp Jun 26, 2009 View on HN

Can anyone find the specifics in the legislation that is causing this. I can't find anything. They really should put all legislation in progress up on github or something.

fallingknife Jun 29, 2024 View on HN

Refuses to legislate in the way that you want them to. There is, in fact, plenty of legislation.

fancyfredbot Dec 19, 2023 View on HN

What is the proposed legislation referred to in this article?