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I don’t really follow Ross Scott outside of this campaign, but I believe he’s a US citizen married to a Polish woman, living in Poland. It sounds like it would take an act of Congress to change things here in the US. My e-mails to my representatives have gone functionally unanswered, which doesn’t mean it isn’t worth trying.

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sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Yes, but it can start at the state legislature, which is a lot easier. But you need a lobbying campaign to get anywhere. Louis Rossmann has made some progress this way by banding together with farmers, and while it’s painful and expensive, it does work.

So if we’re going to do something in the US, we need a lobbiest, a lawyer (to draft a bill), and a lot of people to show up and give testimony. But we only need to win in one state, and then it gets a lot easier. So:

Pick a state with good consumer protections and a market segment that’s somewhat rated to what you want (video games probably won’t work, but other software could)

Work with pissed off companies to put together a lobby

Find a few reps that care (e.g. the reps for those companies’ districts), and get them to sponsor your bill

Appeal to regular people saying this is a stepping stone to what they actually want

Get people to annoy their reps, show up to hearings, etc in support of the bill

Get the bill to the floor (crazy amount of effort)

If the bill passes, start the process over in the next state, which should go smoother

Once you have legal precedent, repeat the process with a small expansion to the thing you actually care about. This should be a lot easier, because you’re just expanding the same rights to more types of customers.

It’s much more of a long shot, but it does seem possible.
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