Big Tech lobbyist language made it verbatim into NY’s hedged repair bill
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Re: Big Tech lobbyist language made it verbatim into NY’s hedged repair bill
#2Is anyone surprised?
Re: Big Tech lobbyist language made it verbatim into NY’s hedged repair bill
#3So last time this story made the rounds, the legislature had passed the bill. Then the mayor signed it into law - but not before adding some legalese that roughly amounted to "just kidding lol". Afaik nobody could explain why it was legal for the mayor to add arbitrary language without legislative oversight. Has anyone dove in to figure out how that happened?
Re: Big Tech lobbyist language made it verbatim into NY’s hedged repair bill
#4So last time this story made the rounds, the legislature had passed the bill. Then the mayor signed it into law - but not before adding some legalese that roughly amounted to "just kidding lol". Afaik nobody could explain why it was legal for the mayor to add arbitrary language without legislative oversight. Has anyone dove in to figure out how that happened?
My understanding is the governor's signed it with an understanding that the legislator would immediately water it down.
Which is what happened
Re: Big Tech lobbyist language made it verbatim into NY’s hedged repair bill
#5Is anyone surprised?
One doubts anyone can muster the energy even to pretend to surprise in this case. It's worth keeping details like this in mind, however, when discussing society-destroying disasters like stupid wars in other hemispheres or insurance-firm-directed health care. We hear lots of arguments that boil down to: "don't criticize democracy; if the'merican people wanted something else they would vote differently!" As we see more clearly in simpler cases like this, in USA we don't have representative government; rather we have an increasingly less convincing simulation of representative government.
Re: Big Tech lobbyist language made it verbatim into NY’s hedged repair bill
#6So last time this story made the rounds, the legislature had passed the bill. Then the mayor signed it into law - but not before adding some legalese that roughly amounted to "just kidding lol". Afaik nobody could explain why it was legal for the mayor to add arbitrary language without legislative oversight. Has anyone dove in to figure out how that happened?
According to the article, the state Senate has not approved the changes yet, so it is not yet law.
Re: Big Tech lobbyist language made it verbatim into NY’s hedged repair bill
#7I’ll remind everyone of the Princeton study that proved our democracy is a sham. Policy outcomes are almost exclusively the product of the preferences of economic elites, not of the People. If you do get a legislative outcome you wanted it’s a coincidence that some big power’s agenda accidentally aligned with your own.
Re: Big Tech lobbyist language made it verbatim into NY’s hedged repair bill
#8The linked article is a report on the original Grist article, https://grist.org/technology/right-to-repair-new-york-hochul...
Re: Big Tech lobbyist language made it verbatim into NY’s hedged repair bill
#9I’ll remind everyone of the Princeton study that proved our democracy is a sham. Policy outcomes are almost exclusively the product of the preferences of economic elites, not of the People. If you do get a legislative outcome you wanted it’s a coincidence that some big power’s agenda accidentally aligned with your own.
Pls link
Re: Big Tech lobbyist language made it verbatim into NY’s hedged repair bill
#10I’ll remind everyone of the Princeton study that proved our democracy is a sham. Policy outcomes are almost exclusively the product of the preferences of economic elites, not of the People. If you do get a legislative outcome you wanted it’s a coincidence that some big power’s agenda accidentally aligned with your own.
Pls link