I can't believe voters in the US look at all the stuff people in Europe are protected from with GDPR and they're just like, "nah, we don't want that legislation that has zero negative impact on us, and protects us from our data and art being perpetuall...
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I can't believe voters in the US look at all the stuff people in Europe are protected from with GDPR and they're just like, "nah, we don't want that legislation that has zero negative impact on us, and protects us from our data and art being perpetually stolen for techbro AI space data centers."
It's not even like EU employment protections, where insane Reaganomics BS insists companies will fall to socialism as a result.
Like, this could be us, but you are most definitely playing.
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Ben Ramseyreplied to Lesley Carhart :unverified: last edited by
@hacks4pancakes It’s not the voters who don’t want it. It’s the corporations.
(Though many voters are ignorant of the issues, and still others hear “EU” and assume it must be the dreaded Socialism!)
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Lesley Carhart :unverified:replied to Ben Ramsey last edited by
@ramsey Yes, but enough engaged voters can win out over the corporations. They did in the EU, and to some extent in California.
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Jonreplied to Lesley Carhart :unverified: last edited by
Agreed — a poll here in Washington state showed 75% support for My Health My Data, , which is in some ways the strongest privacy law in the country. That said, it’s very challenging. For one thing, leadership in both parties favors weak privacy legislation — which makes it look like they’ve done something but doesn’t antagonize business. progressive organizers at the state level don’t tend to see this issue as a priority. National privacy organizations are split, with industry-funded orgs like Future of Privacy Forum supporting weak legislation, and Consumer Reports very willing to measure compromises; most states don’t have strong local privacy orgs, and ACLU is better in some states than others. Big tech is very good at disinformation; most legislators aren’t tech savvy enough to understand goer they’re being bamboozled (and the ones who are tech savvy are often former big tech employees or consultants so favor weak legislation). And most voters make their choices based on other issues, not privacy; politicians know that, so it’s harder to pressure them.
So it can be done — we engaged voters successfully enough here in Washington state that we defeated the Bad Washington Privacy Act four times and then passed My Health My Data. But it’s not clear how replicable it is.
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