Absolutely.

It is, however, a glowing beacon of an example of law being designed to maintain the status quo and/or protect companies at the expense of individuals.

As someone else said, welcome to late stage capitalism.

I don't see why, and I've no idea what "late stage capitalism" is, other than people like to repeat the phrase.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_capitalism#Later_modern_u...

Essentially the emergent properties of extended concentration of power and wealth.