Comment by iamnothere
4 months ago
> This is also true if they can only install verified apps, because no company on earth has the resources to have an actually functional verification process and stuff gets through every day.
This is true, but if this goes through, I imagine that the next step for safety fascists will be to require developer licensing and insurance like general contractors have. And after that, expensive audits, etc, until independent developers are shut out completely.
I don’t know if I agree, but we are very much in a world where that would make sense.
Why do drug companies deserve justice for developing and pushing heroin-analogues, but not tech companies?
Our work has real consequences.
And here we have it, the endgame of safety fascism. Do you have a loicense for that compiler?
Do you call building codes and bridge engineering standards "safety fascism" as well?
The stakes aren't any lower for us.
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