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How do you propose law to become the gatekeeper of tech when most US laws today are written and controlled by corporations, via campaign donations and lobbyists
by WhompingWindows 7y ago
How do you propose law to become the gatekeeper of tech when most US laws today are written and controlled by corporations, via campaign donations and lobbyists?
How can US law understand/regulate tech, given lawmakers are woefully uninformed, especially relative to those tech companies they seek to regulate?
How do you defend looking back to the Constitution in your argument, given its authors couldn't have envisioned the Internet or all its technological brethren? Do you think that male slave-owners in 1776, "representatives" chosen in a plutocratic fashion, should define what our rights are for all time, or is it possible we may gain new rights to previously un-thought of inventions?
- glitchc 7y agoThis comment is woefully wrong on all fronts, but the most galling is the final paragraph. The Fourth Amendment is touted time and time again when full-disk encryption is challenged. To turn around and say "How could the founders have foreseen the Internet??" and therefore imply that it wasn't meant to cover the Internet is hypocrisy of the highest order. You can't have your cake and eat it too!
- chillwaves 7y agoMy personal files in my home are protected by my data on my phone is not. How convenient.
- okmokmz 7y agoThe first two points are absolutely not "woefully wrong". Many laws are essentially written and controlled by corporations via lobbyists, and most politicians are incredibly uninformed/misinformed about tech