Time and attention from interested, intelligent adults.

[quote]as well as saving the huge costs of elections and the corruption of election financing by big corporations[/quote]

Exactly. Instead, corporations shift their costs to the back end, by offering jobs to former elected officials who serve them well.

On second thought, that doesn't sound much better at all.

How about we teach people to do purely visual (1000 wpm+) reading, so they can teach themselves what words mean, before we start putting shiny nonsense in the way of their comprehension?

Is that you?

the first person to try and prosecute somebody with this will be the laughing stock of this country for quite a while.

Yes, that person may be a laughingstock, but that's really beside the point, isn't it? The real danger is in the process of litigation itself.

The accused may be exonerated -- eventually -- but in the mean time, they have to waste time, attention and money on the legal proceedings, being slowly bled dry and subject to additional scrutiny.

And if you don't think there are people who would be eager to become a laughing stock, in exchange for sufficient publicity or payment...

This law opens another door for exactly the sort of proxy harassment we've seen from Microsoft for years.

"I doubt it. raise the price too high and even addicts will find another drug...."

In practice, they turn to crime in order to subsidize their habits, first.

This could turn out really well, actually.

Just report EVERYONE.

BAHAHAHA!

I just realized that I had fallen for it, and believed you were serious.

Well played, sir! I salute you!

Which stones, exactly, have been thrown?

People only talk about consequences when they want to see blood.

When you walk too close to the sacred cliff, and you slip and fall to your death, that's a consequence.

When you walk too close to the sacred cliff, and return safely, and then the villagers who control the surrounding territory decide to stone you to death, that's not a consequence. That's just barbarity.

In this case, BMO is trying to create a sacred cliff where everyone can walk without fear of getting stoned.

(Involuntarily.)