Comment by version_five
3 years ago
Where would the support for fines come from? When government understands these issues at all, they only want more control and restriction. The only thing I can imagine legislators getting upset about is they the car manufacturers are not sharing all the info with government by default. Next steps will be mandating tracking, not fining for it.
Where would the support for fines come from?
Probably when a legislators private graphic videos with an escort or drug dealer or something more interesting gets leaked. Perhaps some government officials data is present in the leak as we speak. It might be harder to spot if not a personally owned vehicle or still cloud registered to a previous owner.
That's how video rental records became private when Supreme Court justice nominee Robert Bork's records were leaked and suddenly everyone in Congress panicked that it could someday happen to them. Bork turned out to have mundane tastes in movies but obviously members of Congress were renting movies a bit more wild.
Is the movie list still around? That might make for a fun watch list.
> When government understands these issues at all, they only want more control and restriction
CHIPS Act of 2022 allocated money to support US semiconductor manufacturing. Right-to-repair laws have been gaining traction even though it can't benefit any large economic interest directly. Those are two recent examples off the top of my head that aren't a reflection of a government that "only want more control and restriction."
I get that politics is frustrating but this kind of blanket caricature just relieves people of the responsibility for engaging with specifics, and when people commit to it that actually covers and enables real corruption.
> When government understands these issues at all, they only want more control and restriction
So what solution do you have that doesn’t involve regulation?
Well, try not being so passive. Are you living in an unchangeable authoritarian system?
Yes? When was the last time people were satisfied with the candidates available to "represent" them and were doing anything other than choosing the "lesser of two evils" to try to keep it from getting worse?