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>Yeah, morally, but we need to start working to make this guaranteed legally. Good luck with that. The main reason it isn't illegal is the people who have bee
by Accujack 4y ago
>Yeah, morally, but we need to start working to make this guaranteed legally.
Good luck with that. The main reason it isn't illegal is the people who have been in charge of the Federal government are too old to understand computers. They've never updated most laws for the computer age, which is why it's legal to eavesdrop on someone's e-mail but not their paper mail, why corporations aggregating huge amounts of data together to know more about their customers than the customers know is legal, and why it's legal for Tesla to do what they did here.
Get the money, geriatrics and religion out of the US government and make it functional again, then we can fix things like this. Until then, lotsa luck.
- jabbany 4y ago> The main reason it isn't illegal is the people who have been in charge of the Federal government are too old to understand computers. But this is a self-resolving problem. Eventually the older generation will just... you know... die off... The more problematic thing is the whole lobbying situation where money is doing the talking. Consumers in general don't have nearly enough money to be viable as political pressure. What really needs to happen is for consumers to be on comparable footing with industry lobbies in terms of political say, and clearly just relying on voting is not cutting it, since you often have cases where all the candidates are different kinds of bad just backed by different lobbies...
- winternett 4y agoEven still, who in their right mind is going to pay a lawyer $10k+ to present a case over a $2k GFX card? Or even do a class action suit just to be mailed a $3 check after the legal fees are worked out... It's all impossibly far from functional.