If we're being honest we can admit that the "Public Servants" make the rules to accommodate the ends. Our Constitution may say wars must have Congressional authorization we have been sailing on post 9-11 "emergency powers" of The Patriot Act ever since.

Sunset clauses built in to appease a terrified public as the laws flew by at the speed of a bullet train and continue on renewals every chance Congress gets as the covert empire grows.

It took a full decade and Jon Stewart's public humiliation of Washington to have "Ground Zero Heroes" given health coverage for illness and death It took a decade to admit the air that Christie Whitman's EPA swore was "perfectly safe" was anything but.

NYC old timers referred to Twin Towers as David & Nelson to honor Battery Park development taxpayer provided them as "public-private partnership" but by 2000 we called them Rockefeller's white elephants.

They were built in a rotary phone era and structural durability, including aircraft impact, became a nightmare with wiring for a booming Internet world. Worse yet asbestos use had not only been stopped in court but remediation had been ordered and compliance costs turn properties into losses. Heads we win tails you lose public policy, wtf they want on our dime.

Back to the regulatory framework with the caveat that confines in actual practice are like juggling jello. Big time favorite source for understanding where technology and law intersect EFF best explains.

Tucked inside the Communications Decency Act (CDA) of 1996 is one of the most valuable tools for protecting freedom of expression and innovation on the Internet: Section 230.

This comes somewhat as a surprise, since the original purpose of the legislation was to restrict free speech on the Internet. The Internet community as a whole objected strongly to the Communications Decency Act, and with EFF's help, the anti-free speech provisions were struck down by the Supreme Court. But thankfully, CDA 230 remains and in the years since has far outshone the rest of the law. https://www.eff.org/issues/cda230