Comment on Gov. Landry signs new drone defense law; first in nation
potatopotato@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Since nobody has mentioned it, all of this is turbo illegal and the federal courts will absolutely nuke this from orbit. State governments do not control airspace, full stop. The courts have been very clear on this. Manned vs unmanned doesn’t matter to the FAA, it’s still one hell of a PP slap from the feds for encroaching on their turf. Additionally, any form of jamming (desense, deauth, noise, location spoofing, fraudulent signals etc) is illegal and regulated by the FCC, and doing it with intent to take down an aircraft means you get strung up by both the FCC and FAA simultaneously. In particular doing literally anything to the GPS band will pose a massive and immediate risk to manned passenger aircraft and the feds aren’t going to look kindly on that.
Things can change very quickly if there’s an “attack” on U.S. soil they totally didn’t know about in advance or anything when they signed this.
Federal regulations and protections can get pushed aside real fast in the name of security, especially when you have states like Louisiana already working so closely with DHS.
Or if you just ignore federal courts, which seems to be the current fashion.
Yes, absolutely, 100%.
FAA has from the beginning been very forceful in asserting that it is the sole authority for things attempting to defy gravity.
On the flip side though, the GOP stopped caring about anything courts say.
So. Guess we’ll see how this plays out for the next few years at least.
FAA: I don’t like what Louisiana is doing.
Donald: we’re going to dismantle FAA.
they have also shown willingness to dismantle federal agencies for whatever agenda they want to accomplish.
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
With the federal government gutting funding of it’s own agencies, we may see more of this.
Federal laws are effective if they’re effectively enforced. If states lose confidence in federal enforcement, it makes sense that they will try to do their own thing, and see if the courts are understaffed and lethargic or able to act.
And if the federal government succeeds in using AI instead of human staff, then all each state will need to do is pass the same law a few different times with slightly different wording to hit the right gap in the AI.
There’s interesting times ahead.