I'm really glad this passed, right when laws are basically becoming meaningless. /s
this post was submitted on 04 Jun 2025
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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.
Now cars and farm equipment. Let's gooo
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...
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.