New Delhi, Jan. 28 -- Laws are almost always designed to be broad, aimed at addressing a range of different issues. However, governments sometimes deviate from that approach, enacting targeted legislation aimed at narrow outcomes.

The problem is that even though lawmakers come to this process with a clear sense of what they want to achieve, the outcomes of this approach are often not what they intended.

Take the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act (PAFACA), a law designed to ban TikTok in the US. Once the Supreme Court upheld the constitutional validity of the law, Bytedance, the Chinese-controlled company that owns the viral video app had little option but to shut it down.

Long before the app went d...