Re: Sigh, friends don't let politicians write tech laws

[Michael Thomas <mike () mtcc com>]

On 7/29/22 2:57 PM, Anne Mitchell wrote:
> > On Jul 29, 2022, at 3:37 PM, John Levine <johnl () iecc com> wrote:
> >
> > It appears that Michael Thomas <mike () mtcc com> said:
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> > >
> > >
> > > https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/4409/text?r=9&s=1
> > >
> > > the body of the proposed law:
> > This bill was filed by a bunch of the usual right wing suspects about
> > a month ago.  It was referred to committee, like all filed bills, and
> > I very much doubt it will ever emerge.
> I'm inclined to agree, except that as we've seen Google has already attempted to cave, which means that they (the bills' sponsors) will feel 
> even more emboldened, and can point to Google's "pilot program" as evidence that "even Google admits there is a problem, so we need the law 
> to make the other big providers do it."
>
> I believe we can't rely on it being buried without a little help.  It costs nothing to send an email to a 
> representative, so..why not provide that help. ;~)
Really? It's completely unworkable. What would even constitute "compliance"?

Mike