Double negatives tend to be confusing, especially when I haven't had my coffee.
Here's an interesting question:
What is the difference between government requiring an individual to show ID, and a government regulation ( secret, as well ) requiring private industry to require an individual to show ID?
The government doesn't have to require the latter: my company won't let me in its building without an ID that I must pass through a badge reader.
No badge, no entry.
"What is the difference between government requiring an individual to show ID, and a government regulation ( secret, as well ) requiring private industry to require an individual to show ID?"
Many of the laws in the US are promulgated under the Interstate Commerce Laws and Defense. Accordingly it is much easier to regulate busnesses in commerce than it is individuals, in part, because the Feds do recognize and respect individual rights.
What is the difference? The law or regulation may be written differently but the end results might not except the individual has the right to choose to use or do business or not.
My linguistics professor was lecturing our class. “In English,” he exclaimed. “a double negative forms a positive. In some languages, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative.
“However,” the professor continued, “there is no language in which a double positive can form a negative.”
Where as I piped up from the back of the room, “Yeah, Right.”