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Essentially because the people drafting the laws are ignorant about technology, and have a kind of weird snobbery towards it. They like the shiny, but don't try and engage them in a conversation about what actually makes it tick.

Knowing and caring how the plumbing actually works marks you out as a plumber, and sophisticated people don't concern themselves with those kind of details.

(Also various corruptions in the drafting process itself, of the sort which tend to arise when you have a mega-nation with competing interests and power blocs, but in this case it's mostly just ignorance.)



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