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[–] lemmy_user_838586@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I'm really glad this passed, right when laws are basically becoming meaningless. /s

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

When WA secedes along with oregon and cali to get away from the insanity, it'll be real convenient to have a law like this on the books so we can just copy it over. I guess.

[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Now cars and farm equipment. Let's gooo

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The carve outs were so enormous due to industry lobby it's an embarrassment and crosses the "locks in more future harm than good it releases" threshold:

...Game consoles, Smart home devices, biometric security, Farm equipment, off-road gear, EV chargers, routers, modems, medical devices, set-top boxes, and a ton of industrial stuff...

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 week ago

I was curious about a source on this. I believe I found the final bill here. Lawyers correct me if I'm wrong. But section 5 indeed has a slew of carveouts for basically everything you would want this bill to cover:

  • emergency communications equipment
  • medical devices
  • motor vehicles or equipment
  • life safety systems
  • farm or agricultural equipment
  • video game consoles
  • solar panels or batteries (in hilariously generic yet vague wording: "power generation or storage equipment and certain products that store electrical energy and transmit the energy after storage; products that generate or store electrical energy from solar radiation;")
  • and more

Lame.