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Yes, but anonymity on the web makes it much harder enforce these laws online.



Computer printers enabling home publishing might make it harder to enforce libel laws, but a shift in enforcement difficulty need not require new laws.

If I invented a new sort of zip-lock baggy that was completely impermeable to smell, that would make the enforcement of several laws more difficult, but should my invention prompt new laws? No, that would be an overreaction.




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