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OK, monkey paw wish granted.

Laws may now only be passed and officially discussed using their globally unique identifier like SB-47226

When politicians advocate for or against these laws in the public sphere they will still make up catchy names to make them stick in peoples heads.

Now you still get misleading names but its twice as hard to understand what bill is what.



> Laws may now only be passed and officially discussed using their globally unique identifier like SB-47226

This particular globally unique identifier gets reset with every sitting.

"H.R.13293 — 118th Congress" would be a globally unique one. Unless it conflicts with some of the state legislatures.


In Germany laws get boring descriptive names without any silly acronyms. E.g. the Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz, the "network enforcement act", which forces social networking sites to proactively delete illegal content without a court order. They didn't choose an Orwellian euphemism. I assume Americans could do the same.




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