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You probably couldn’t ban the term engineer completely. But states do have pretty wide latitude to regulate job titles. You can’t call yourself a Professional Engineer, Registered Nurse, CPA, or Psychologist for example.

Commercial speech doesn’t enjoy absolute protection.

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> You probably…

Yes, agreed but what is the point? What problem are we solving?

Regulation is the point.

You probably can't stop all smugglers You probably can't stop all teen pregnancies You probably can't stop all enshitification

But a well functioning society owes itself to try to keep itself accountable.

There are regulations.

The point is to have a reliable way to distinguish someone who actually accepts responsibility for the systems they build, from programmers with title inflation.

You can't easily discuss or legislate things that don't have solid definitions.

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