Re:California “Kill Switch” Bill Could Be Used to Disrupt Pr...
by anigbrowl on Tuesday August 19, 2014 @09:05PM
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Perhaps, but I don't think it's fair to judge this bill on how legislators might amend it in future, or we'll never pass any laws at all.
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Re:California “Kill Switch” Bill Could Be Used to Disrupt Pr...
by CodeDiver on Tuesday August 26, 2014 @12:20AM
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Laws have unintended consequences. It's good to slow down the creation of laws and weigh tradeoffs. Laws are intended to be solutions. But the cure may prove worse than the disease.
Re:California “Kill Switch” Bill Could Be Used to Disrupt Pr...
by mikeash on Wednesday August 20, 2014 @07:57PM
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Can we judge it on how the police interpret these things now?
For example, the police are only supposed to shoot people when there's imminent risk of death or great bodily harm. Yet there is routine, if not common, overreach there, including one notorious recent incident that people are currently protesting with great vigor.
If you can't reliably enforce the rule that police aren't supposed to kill people except in dire emergencies, how will you do it for cell phone kill switches?