Now we need to do this California to seal the deal.
this post was submitted on 27 Mar 2024
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I can't wait to get back to Oregon
Is this actually good news? What can a single state do? Shouldn't this be federal?
They can ban selling products which do it
A single state is still a large market to pass up, and tooling costs make it impractical to manufacture different versions of things.
Even for software, the US experiences positive externalities of the GDPR and the rest of the US does from privacy laws in California and Illinois (likely others that I don't know off the top of my head)
State laws also often serve as the prototype for federal ones.
It should be federal, but this is absolutely good news.
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Couldn't states go after companies under the Magnuson–Moss Warranty Act instead of writing new state legislation.