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1. HiPhish · 1791021214 · focus · HN ↗

   > Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility

   How does legislation work in the US? How can an impossible law pass? Is it just some boomer stomping his feet like a toddler "I know what I want, and I want it now" without consulting any technical experts, and then private organizations like the EFF and courts have to clean up the mess?

   1. eschaton · 1791021462 · focus · HN ↗

      Is there actually any jurisdiction in which technocrats have veto power over legislation?

      1. HiPhish · 1791021711 · focus · HN ↗

         It's not about veto power, it's about consulting technical experts to evaluate whether the legal proposal even makes sense. The EU Cyber Resilience Act is a good example: experts stepped in and made sure that the term "supplier" was accurately defined so some random Joe Shmoe could not be held liable for bugs in some piece of code he threw over the wall on GitHub. The law still got passed, but after being refined.

         1. cheschire · 1791022053 · focus · HN ↗

            What makes you think an "expert" was not consulted on this? Experts can be wrong too, regardless of credentials. That's why AI should be used to review and critique all new laws going forward, in order to prevent such mistakes from being made law. Hard /s, btw.

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