The problems with this kind of legislation are the piggyback effect and the wedge effect.
You might think the Bill has a legitimate purpose, but it will be used for purposes that could not be imagined when it was first enacted. Other purposes are piggybacked onto it, so that there is a hidden payload.
Then, once in effect, the Bill can be added to far more easily than the original introductory process. All sorts of addenda can be tacked on according to who pays most.
One excellent example of misuse of legislation occurs in the UK. A local authority was found to be using anti-terrorist legislation to spy on families, in an attempt to discover if the residential area requirements for the placement of children at schools were being abused. These abuses of power are widespread and nothing can be done to stop them: if a law is in place, it can sometimes be successfully perverted for other means.
Internet laws would be the finest example of the use of law to achieve commercial aims not envisioned when the law was introduced, since the possibilities for abuse are endless. ECF has already been
threatened with takedown for commercially-based reasons, and you can be certain that the days of e-cigarette forums would be numbered if these laws came into force.
Freedom has to be fought for, it is not free.
