https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180704/13054740174/what-soda-taxes-lead-paint-have-to-do-with-internet-regulation.shtml > They say that laws are like sausages, and you should never watch either be made if you don't want to be sick. But some manufacturing processes are more disgusting than others, and if we don't want to suffer ill-effects, we need to keep an eye on the worst of them. > As others have discussed, the new California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is at best a law with troubling aspects, if not completely chilling for future Internet businesses and even non-commercial online expression. True, there may be the opportunity to amend it before it goes into effect to dull the worst of it, but how we find ourselves in this position where we are stuck with a ticking time bomb of a law that we now need to fix is a story worth telling, because if it could happen once it could happen again. And already has.