Comment on Montana Becomes First State to Enshrine ‘Right to Compute’ Into Law - Montana Newsroom
treadful@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
The bill text seems pretty reasonable. Basically just says the government needs a good reason to create regulations on computation.
It even explicitly mentions good reasons may include things like fraud, deepfakes, and public nuisances of datacenters.
As a Montanan, I’m cool with it. Guess we’ll see how it’s used.
I wonder if this would make it illegal to cut off someone’s internet if they are accused of piracy. Probably that sort of thing still goes.
It might provide a protection against anti-circumvention laws and such; laws that make it criminal to mess with hardware DRM on your devices.
My first thought was about potentially protecting encryption, with all the privacy-invading laws that are popping up here in the US and abroad, but after skimming through the bill it seems like they could still use the “but criminals use encryption” line
Cooper8@feddit.online 11 hours ago
It’s too bad it leaves the door open for age verification requirements, but the language is overall pretty decent.