Comment by matheusmoreira
5 hours ago
Pointless and deceptive. A real "right to compute" law would ban remote attestation, would ban discrimination against users based on the "trustworthiness" of their systems, would force companies to allow custom software and firmware as well as provide technical documentation and specifications to users so they can repair and modify the systems they bought.
Wrong. This is not how rights work.
You have the right to not provide custom software and firmware and technical documentation, the right to enforce remote attestation, and the right to refuse service to whoever you wish.
Your right to do all that should be taken away. Our freedom to own our computers is more important than your right to punish us for trying to do so by banishing us from digital society via remote attestation. Your only option should be to accept that we own our computers and deal with us on those terms. Refusing to do so should be criminalized on the same level as racism.
You have the freedom to own a computer.
> Refusing to do so should be criminalized on the same level as racism.
Racism isn’t criminal? At least not in any country anyone wants to live in lol
>You have the right to not provide custom software and firmware and technical documentation,
Just like all food sellers have the right not to provide documentation on the ingredients and nutrition of their products?
Correct. I buy food from vendors on the beach in foreign countries - it has no documentation. It’s a consensual transaction I choose to engage in.