All laws have corner cases that are not covered. All laws.
If laws were to cover every imaginable situation, they would be huge. Some already are... you have a whole bureaucracy working to understand them.
That's why you often hear about the "spirit of the law" where humans know pretty well what the legislator is trying to accomplish, even though it's not fully codified in subsequent rules.
This is simply not true. Laws can be written exceptionally clearly, and very often are.
And the "spirit of the law" is a fallacy, which your sentence exposes when you write:
> "the legislator is trying to accomplish"
Because yes, there is absolutely intent with a single legislator. But there is no such thing as intent or spirit for a legislature (or committee). A legislature can pass a law, say 51 to 49, where every one of the 51 majority legislators has a different intent for passing it. And this isn't even the exception, it's the norm -- laws are hashed out in subcommittees as inelegant compromises because each legislator wants a different thing out of it.
Legislation that gets passed has no "intent" and no, humans don't know "pretty well" what was trying to be accomplished, because it's a compromise between competing wings/individuals of a party or coalition, and the only "intent" that they could decide on was what got written in the law, and nothing else.
Again, the "spirit of the law" is a fallacy. It's an illusion people would like to believe, but it doesn't exist.
> TBH, I don't think that you know how the law works better than judges and magistrates do.
TBH, I don't think you do either, but I also know that kind of argument isn't useful here on HN.
> You know what a loophole is, right?
Yes, it's a layman's term that has no real legal meaning, and exists only in the eye of the beholder. What one person calls a tax loophole, another person recognizes as policy that a subset of legislators ensured existed in a bill.
It seems like a pretty gross oversight to not specify charging speeds if the government truly cares about it to the point they plan to take legal action against companies who fail to correctly read the minds of legislators.
If laws were to cover every imaginable situation, they would be huge. Some already are... you have a whole bureaucracy working to understand them.
That's why you often hear about the "spirit of the law" where humans know pretty well what the legislator is trying to accomplish, even though it's not fully codified in subsequent rules.