Sen. Dick Durbin
OK, that's it. The final proof I needed that we live in a simulation and whoever runs it is just fucking with us.
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Another law that will be used to target Gamers™
Good.
Also an attack on the 1st ammendnent.
Am I the only one that still gets uncomfortable every time the government tries to regulate advanced technology?
—~~It's not a Libertarian thing to me as much as it's a~~ 'politicians don't understand technology thing.'
Arguing against laws that prohibit sexual exploitation with high tech tools, because of the nature of technology, would be like arguing against laws that prohibit rape because of the nature of human sexuality.
The "it still is going to happen" argument doesn't matter, because the point of the law isn't to eliminate something 100%, it is to create consequences for those who continue to do what the law prohibits.
It's not some slippery slope either, it is extremely easy not to make involuntary pornography of other people.
The worrying aspect of these laws are always that they focus too much on the method. This law claims to be about preventing a particular new technology, but then goes on to apply to all software.
And frankly if you need a clause about how someone is making fake pornography of someone then something is off. Something shouldn't be illegal simply because it is easy.
Deepfakes shouldn't be any more or less illegal than photos made of a doppelgänger or an extremely photorealistic painting (and does photorealism even matter? To the victims, I mean.). A good law should explain why those actions are illegal and when and not just restrict itself to applying solely to 'technology' and say oh if it only restricts technology then we should be all right.
I am not ok with making art a crime.
Do not give away basic human rights because of emotional appeals.
If sexual blackmail is the problem, prosecute sexual blackmail.
Good thing consent is part of the bill then
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At least they have now started to try to learn about the tech they're trying to regulate, as opposed to Ted Stevens who obviously just read a prepared speech someone else had made in his famous "Series of Tubes" speech.
More like the silicon valley funding machine had someone write up the bill and hand it over to a senator to retype on official letterhead.
You need to start somewhere. Regulation will always lag behind technology. But sooner or later things will get regulated. Once a good number of people are affected by something, rules will be brought in by the people. That's how democracy works.
These rules are never perfect. Sometimes, to make rules effective, they have to be multilayered (swiss cheese model). But that makes them too expensive to implement. So eventually things end in a compromise where cost and effectiveness balance.
—It's not a Libertarian thing to me as much as it's a 'politicians don't understand firearms thing.'
—It's not a Libertarian thing to me as much as it's a 'politicians don't understand healthcare thing.'
—It's not a Libertarian thing to me as much as it's a 'politicians don't understand medical thing.'
Politicians understand Healthcare and guns, they just don't care about the fallout.
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This kind of argument is always just a thought-terminator. No actual argument for why the law is bad, just a low-effort jab that lawmakers are too stupid to pass a good law.
It's okay, I'm pretty sure they are simply showing that Libertarian ideology is based in a mistrust of politicians — and to a degree, they're right. I don't typically promote or discuss the ideology. I just think as I currently watch YouTube videos on the nuances of cybersecurity, that it's so easy for well-informed professional experts to make far reaching mistakes, that it seems absurd to expect uneducated politicians to create regulations that are simultaneously targeted enough to not cause excess issues while still broad enough to effectively reduce the unwanted behavior.
I still think back to Clinton arguing that regulating the internet was akin to "nailing jello to the wall."
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