In an article for Bloomberg View published shortly after the election, Cass Sunstein, administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs under President Obama, called the
idea «
pretty dumb» and said it would be extremely difficult to implement and require so many exemptions as to leave its scope narrow.
«This was just another
dumb idea I came up with that snowballed its way into a
pretty awesome project,» says Redditor heroOFwar, one of the creative minds behind the endeavor.