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kevinsundar on July 9, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Arizona makes it illegal for bystanders to record ...

You can't really read laws in the negative. Laws only mean what they say.

You can still for example "interfere" and be more than 8 feet away and pointing to this law won't help you.

WesternWind on July 11, 2022 [–]

You are largely right, though one can apply the canons of construction to understanding a law's text, which sometimes can sometimes lead to inferences.

https://www.law.uh.edu/faculty/adjunct/dstevenson/2018Spring...

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