Post #1396218

2026-03-21 15:30 UTC

@einsiedlerspiel I seem to keep making this point elsewhere, and so I’ll be blunt: if you are not the person against whom the law will be enforced, I don’t think it’s your place to say ‘let them try to enforce it’. You are demanding that others face the consequences on your behalf.

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@einsiedlerspiel@todon.nl 2026-03-21 15:36

@benjamineskola right, at some point it starts being my problem because I'm sitting downstream of this code. People are responsible for the code they write and the harm it does. This is how you talk yourself into 'just following orders'. You're free to act out of self preservation. I'm free to withhold my sympathy. And we're talking here about laws that are not even yet in effect, and compliance implemented by someone who isn't in the position to be held responsible in the end either. The stakes could not be lower. How am I supposed to trust that there is a point at which I downstream won't be thrown under the bus by these projects, when the stakes inevitably will be higher?

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@su_liam@mas.to 2026-03-21 17:33

@benjamineskola @einsiedlerspiel If they’re looking to enforce their draconian little law against the people who don’t write the software implementing it, then: I am Spartacus. And I intend to remain so. Next time I go into California, I will take my laptop, that will remain illegally free of any such implementation. The belly of the beast. And yeah, I will continue to criticize people safe outside of the belly of the beast who chose to build the tools of repression.

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