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I wasn't arguing for no laws though, only that we don't need to resch for them as quickly as we often do or want to do. I thought the topic here was about banning advertising as a whole, if we want to zoom into privacy concerns relates to the retention of PII data that is more doable and we already have a framework to start with based on the EU.

> If you're thoughtful and deliberate about how you write your legislation, you can have a disproportionately positive impact with a very small amount of additional weight.

Unfortunately that really is a non-starter in the US today. I have very little faith that Congress is interested in carefully considering and clarifying. I have even less faith that any bill with thousands of pages of text, which is how they appear to do business these days, could ever be clearly defined and scoped to avoid obvious unintended consequences or misplaced boundaries.



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