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Welp. I just deleted a couple of posts that were deep in threads that a whole bunch of people were taking out of context and accusing me of things I was not advocating for. My mentions are destroyed for the day and I have real work to do, so comments off on this post as well.

I was asked a specific question about how the law worked, and I explained where things are today, which is mostly "it depends" with certain caveats, which a lot of people interpreted as "he's okay with terrible, horrible, sometimes illegal stuff happening."

I understand the desire of many people to see bad companies and bad people punished for doing bad things. But the laws work the way they work for a reason, and sometimes it's way more complicated than you believe.

There were a few lawyers who got involved in the conversation who were making interesting points (sometimes challenging my argument) and I appreciated those discussions. There were also a lot of people, almost all engineers, who assumed they understood the law in ways they clearly did not.

So I'll take that as a lesson to myself not to mix "this is how the law works" in the same conversation as "and this might be a consequence if the law didn't work that way" without clearly establishing the difference. My apologies for not being clearer on that.