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by HWR_14
1873 days ago
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Do the needs of that town with 500 inhabitants require different streaming laws? Freedom to repair laws. Special export restrictions? Should they be allowed to dump chemicals in the water we all share? Host servers that serve copyrighted material? What needs do they have that evil laws are ignoring. |
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A town with 500 inhabitants isn't required to have different streaming laws or freedom to repair laws etc. They could all pass the same ones. But if the state of Colorado thinks that the rules in New York are too favorable to device makers and the state of Alaska doesn't care to have any laws on the matter at all then why shouldn't the people there be able to make their own choices?
If the cost of living is dramatically lower in Wichita Falls, Texas than it is in San Francisco, California, what sense does it make to have a federal minimum wage instead of allowing each place to choose appropriate to their local economy?
> Should they be allowed to dump chemicals in the water we all share?
Pollution that crosses state lines is the purpose of federal courts. You don't need federal regulations for that, just an outright complete prohibition on it and penalties for the offending state.
> Host servers that serve copyrighted material?
That ship has sailed, hasn't it? It's a global internet. The Pirate Bay is still up. Does it really matter if it's hosted in North Dakota or Sweden or wherever it is now?
And we could most certainly stand to not have DMCA 1201 everywhere.