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2 hours agoNot really. Pardons apply to criminal liability, not civil fines. HIPAA violations usually result in civil penalties. A pardon wouldn’t erase a regulatory fine from HHS. That’s not how pardons work.
I want to call your response out as doomerism, but I’ll allow you to retract the idea you put forth with the additional knowledge put forth here.
Getting sick of this “we’re fucked, there’s nothing we can do” sentiment everywhere I go on Lemmy. It’s sus AF at this point. It’s also contagious, which I believe is the point. So I certainly will never stand for it in response to anything I put out here.
You’re shifting the goalposts. The original claim was that a pardon would negate HIPAA fines, which it wouldn’t. Now you’re saying HHS won’t enforce the law – different argument entirely.
If you want to discuss regulatory capture or selective enforcement, fine – but let’s not pretend that means the law ceases to exist or that we should throw up our hands. That’s the kind of learned helplessness I’m pushing back on.
Again – sus doomerism. GTFO homie. I smell your camp from a mile the fuck away.