Some of us (for whom Charisma is not their dump stat) need to get elected to national legislative assemblies and form technology and engineering caucuses. Poss

Some of us (for whom Charisma is not their dump stat) need to get elected to national legislative assemblies and form technology and engineering caucuses. Possible items for its agenda: - Right to Repair - Right to Tinker - Right to "Pwn Ur Own" - Hardware sellers required to deliver firmware source to buyers --- including build scripts --- including device-specific signing keys --- even for cars and tractors - Public APIs required for public-facing services - Right to non-backdoored strong encryption - Formal requirements for custodianship of PII - Formal requirements for security in IoT devices - Ban on local monopolies on wired telecoms - Definitions for terms used in advertising (i.e. "5G") - Establish a separate USPTO regime specifically for computer programs The lawyers of the Boomer generation that seem to be running the show now are not very well-suited to understand the near-future problems in the technology field. A lot of these problems are better solved by strongarming companies into behaving more eusocially than by attempting a technical solution or starting disruptive competitor businesses.