Does the law favor degree mills?

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State government regularly license degree mills to operate.

Either the U.S State has no detailed provisions dealing with that, and thus everything goes, or they simply either don't license or harass existing mills, whence the via crucis of many mills migrating from one state to the next.
Other States such as Italy or France never licensed any 'mill' as far as I know; they even harassed local branches of accredited, legitimate foreign universities that didn't get an authorization.
ECOLE SUPERIEURE ROBERT DE SORBON makes so much fuss about it, but fact is, they are NOT accredited as mainstream universities...they are a CULTURAL ASSOCIATION...your local karate school could pretend they are a Japanese university, by the same token.