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Originally Posted by stanley
Does that really matter?
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Why yes, yes it does. Words matter in a text forum. They matter a lot. When you post a brand new thread to inform people that a "new" regulation has done a, b, or c - the focus is on the word "new." It's directing your attention to something that hasn't happened previously. And, without including the source of the information, people who don't actually do any fact checking, will take it at face value and respond as though the thing that happened, was a new thing.
It's not new. It's not even recent. It happened almost 3 years ago (December 2018). The entire free world has had a chance to get used to this information for the past 2+ years, and the OP is JUST NOW directing your attention to it, as if it were something new and nefarious that "means something" in the current political climate.
It's a non-thing. A nothingberder. One of those "dood, that is SO five minutes ago" former-events-that-no-one-cares-about-anymore. There's no reason to bring it up now, other than to stir a hornet's nest that hadn't previously existed.