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by Volundr 934 days ago
> (and juuuust in case you're going to do the Law Doesn't Say thing again about accepting programming, it doesn't need to. it's already a thing.)

In other words your arguing against a hypothetical that only exists in your own mind, and by your own admission, software updates are already and thing and this law already wouldn't be required to issue a software update that disables your car, and this doesn't actually bring us any closer to that.

So already a moot point I guess?

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> In other words your arguing against a hypothetical that only exists in your own mind,

Considering generations of legislative compulsions to control unliked behavior

that is increasingly enabled by Gov's history + means + ever-ratcheting desire for surveillance of every possible person

and then allowing those astoundingly plain realities to coalesce into the world's least unlikely outcome

[pause]

this process of obviousness isn't actually restricted to just my head - as is evidenced by post after post after post on the very same page you're posting to.