Force a private company to adopt a standard because "why not?" or "Sounds good". Where do we draw the line? Force Apple to use USB C? Force companies to use specific batteries? What is the limits of government forcing private companies on how to run their business? How much different is this than bag laws and straw laws and soda laws? These aren't laws based on anything specific other than "muh feels". It is dangerous ground to make laws like these and while you cheer for the ones that give you something you will not be happy about the ones that force you to do things. The correct way to implement something like this is via capitalism and choosing products on the free market that do what you want. You can still buy cars that don't send data.
[–] Blood-is-Nature ago
It's scary just how dumb mankind is to fall for the same trick again and again. Their agenda is data accumulation, and they first forced a data-bank into whatever institution they can get away with it, and now they're offering to legislate the "right" to allow their slaves to access the database, thereby protecting the existence of the database and the criminal data accumulation process behind a legal wall.
[–] shifty_pete 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
Great. Now do smartphones.
[–] Handroid7 1 point -1 points 0 points (+0|-1) ago (edited ago)
Now do smartphones.
May this 5000-word article assist you in debates about this topic.
[–] StagOfMull 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago (edited ago)
I fucking hate MA and I'm from there, but thisnis good news. The fact this had to be voted on is bullshit though.
Massachusetts is a cockroach of a state, even California isn't as leftist loving on the whole as MA.
[–] Neon_Scrotum 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Even liberals have a good idea once in a while.
[–] CantBuySkills 0 points 12 points 12 points (+12|-0) ago
Good. It's kind of fucked up that it even had to be voted on.
[–] Handroid7 1 point 5 points 6 points (+6|-1) ago
I deeply hope that non-user-replaceable batteries will be outlawed too, because mobile phones with non-replaceable batteries failed to co-exist with user-replaceable battery phones.
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[–] SIayfire122 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
This is what sucks when I purchased my most recent phone. I didn't realize how bad it's gotten until I was shopping for a new phone and no one made them anymore with removable batteries.
[–] selpai 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
Wrong. They voted to try require (by law) that each newly sold car come with a telematics system installed. That's the device that tracks everything you do.
A very successful campaign was run to obfuscate this as a right to repair bill. There were commercial s for both sides, but at the end of the day people couldn't be bothered to read the fucking bill.
You lot are just as dumb. Or did the phrases "wirelessly transmit" & "remote server" not make it into your tiny skulls?
[–] SaveTheTrannys ago
So buy a 20 or 30 year old car that didn't get snagged by the Cash for Clunkers for a few hundred bucks, spend a grand or two bringing it up to snuff and spend the other thousands on your family or whatever.