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		luriel on May 28, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Setting Google Analytics to not use cookies As Ian Clarke (original designer of Freenet) put it: "It is the responsibility of every citizen to ignore dumb laws." And I would add that the whole world would crawl to a halt and descend into total chaos if everyone followed every law in the books. Too many laws are plain incoherent, inconsistent and impossible to follow.

mibbitier on May 28, 2012 [–]

Also, laws only 'matter' if they're actually enforced. There's no indication this will actually be enforced at all.

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