@oblomov of course there was. How do you think it helps to pretend otherwise?

@kirb

@oblomov how not? do you imagine that the law simply goes away if you wish hard enough, or do you think that people in (e.g.) california should simply be forced to use windows or macos instead?

@kirb

@benjamineskola @oblomov @kirb

Let them try to enforce it

@benjamineskola

right, at some point it starts being my problem because I'm sitting downstream of this code. People are responsible for the code they write and the harm it does. This is how you talk yourself into 'just following orders'. You're free to act out of self preservation. I'm free to withhold my sympathy.

And we're talking here about laws that are not even yet in effect, and compliance implemented by someone who isn't in the position to be held responsible in the end either. The stakes could not be lower. How am I supposed to trust that there is a point at which I downstream won't be thrown under the bus by these projects, when the stakes inevitably will be higher?

@benjamineskola

It's part and parcel with similar pushes for 'trusted environments' on end user devices. It's building infrastructure.

And yeah in its current iteration it is almost minuscule, that's why it's so alarming that compliance is so eager.

@einsiedlerspiel I have zero sympathy for hysteria about this.

It's a bad law, yes. But the people affected by it do not have the luxury of simply ignoring it and hoping it'll go away.

@benjamineskola

well it won't go away if there's no resistance and the infrastructure for enforcing it exists that's for sure.