Buried in Infrastructure Bill Is a Mandatory Backdoor Kill Switch for Your Car

Re:Buried in Infrastructure Bill Is a Mandatory Backdoor Kil... by andrew_ on Friday December 03, 2021 @08:57AM (#29430049)

What I continue to find shocking is just how many people commenting on this post are lining up to accept another authoritarian measure for a very small amount of additional comfort of mind.

Having just watched "No Time to Die," Rami Malek's character has a classic vilian diatribe in which he says:

The thing that no one wants to admit is that most people want things to happen to them. We tell each other lies about the fight for free will and independence, but we don't really want that. We want to be told how to live and then die when we're not looking.

It strikes me that perhaps storywriters keep adding lines like this to movies, books, etc because it's actually true for a significant amount of people. And that's really saddening.

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Re:Buried in Infrastructure Bill Is a Mandatory Backdoor Kil... by psyc on Friday December 03, 2021 @09:30AM (#29430396)

I'm under the impression that a lot of tech / 'rational' people are utilitarian consequentialists, and if you tell a good utilitarian story, a lot of them will sign up. Like, liberty and privacy sound nice, but how many lives do they save? I also have a theory that a lot of programmers think it's natural to fix bugs in society by writing (U.S.) code.

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