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A very good way to put it: FUD in action.

We may put you in jail for paying sanctioned criminals, but we will not tell you explicitly what constitutes a sanctioned crime, who those criminals are, or we can pull it right out of thin air

This way they evade the need to go to the legislature to institute a new class of ban list for them to run.

As an any "pull out of thin air" type privilege, it's a bad thing



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