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Re:US States Banning Gaming PCs? Here's What's Going On by ryan_lane on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @09:40PM (#27991872)
How do you know which computer you need to buy to lower your energy consumption, if there's no transparency around which ones use lower energy? The point of regulations like this is to make this clear, and to force companies to compete on features they'd otherwise not care about.

The biggest problem with libertarian solutions is that they're regressive taxes, politically presented as "freedom".

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Re:US States Banning Gaming PCs? Here's What's Going On by _lazlo on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @10:39PM (#27992207)
Libertarians acknowledge the need for regulations. The importance is that they are stable and apply to everyone equally. Labels for food that list ingredients is great because it has been fair and stable as an example.
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Re:US States Banning Gaming PCs? Here's What's Going On by ryan_lane on Thursday July 29, 2021 @12:31AM (#27992798)
The regulation being discussed is fair and stable and applies to everyone equally. Most appliances in your house are energy regulated; it's actually odd that computers are not. So, if anything you're arguing for the regulations discussed.

"Letting the market decide" is not a form of regulation.

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Re:US States Banning Gaming PCs? Here's What's Going On by _lazlo on Friday July 30, 2021 @06:46PM (#28013349)
Maybe, I’m not am expert on this computer topic. I just wanted to highlight the libertarian opinion on regulations.

The main goal of libertarians is to get prices to work. The alternative that i fear we are heading towards is price controls then mandated requirements for output. E.g produce 100 loafs of bread today that will sell for $1.00 or off to jail you go.

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