> Legislation would only be used as a vehicle to achieve monopoly control by large tech companies... Food labeling requirements haven't lead to monopoly contro

> Legislation would only be used as a vehicle to achieve monopoly control by large tech companies... Food labeling requirements haven't lead to monopoly control over food. Why would IoT labeling be different? Don't get me wrong, I'm cynical too! The lobbyists that control our legislators with purse strings will most certainly do everything in their power to ensure any such labeling only makes things better for their corporate overlords! I just think, "what's good for corporate overlords" is actually good for everyone in this case. I would expect VC-funded businesses to reject any such, "Requires 3rd party service to function" label since they're all about locking customers in with "network effects". I would also expect established, old-school businesses like Microsoft to reject any label that would identify a product as "open source". ...but what corporate overlord is going to object to labeling like, "Regularly updates itself"? That's something that's cheap for them to do but can be expensive for upstart competitors. There's much to be gained and almost nothing to be lost with labeling IoT devices.