I dunno, it looks fairly reasonable to me. At this point I feel like the sooner everyone just shrugs and adopts a GDPR-ish like framework, the better. And this one looks serviceable, doesn't come into effect until 2020, and can be tweaked in the meantime if needed.
I'm open to the proposition that there's something horrible here but 1) the linked article doesn't seems to able to find any and 2) it does do a good job of selling me on the idea that this law is better than the ballot initiative we'll get if this doesn't pass.
So...what are we meant to do with this info? Call up our local legislators (if we live in CA) and tell them to pass it? (Or...not pass it? I'm honestly confused what the author wants.) There's no call to action here I can see, probably because there's nothing meaningful to do, in which case...maybe take a few more days and make a readable analysis of whatever ends up passing? Because this just feels like fearmongering.
Right. If there are any major issues, the companies can pay the government to make it how they want. They surely will anyhow. Very sad for the small businesses that will suffer, but I can’t reason to worry for them more than the all the millions mustering a life in the surveillance state without small business capital. It sounds rough but something has to change yesterday. Let the corporations work out the details for once and if you honestly want small businesses to have a voice, simply vote for candidates who don’t accept corporate campaign donations. That’s where it starts.
I have started a business and sold 4 years ago. I understand your point.
Mine is more about asking what pace of commercial
enterprise a society can and should bear. Why must everyone carry the burdens of our greatest risk takers? Life has many facets. Some of them cannot be bought and sold, and some of them shouldn’t be. Businesses come and go like flies. Civil societies are harder to come by.
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I dunno, it looks fairly reasonable to me. At this point I feel like the sooner everyone just shrugs and adopts a GDPR-ish like framework, the better. And this one looks serviceable, doesn't come into effect until 2020, and can be tweaked in the meantime if needed.
I'm open to the proposition that there's something horrible here but 1) the linked article doesn't seems to able to find any and 2) it does do a good job of selling me on the idea that this law is better than the ballot initiative we'll get if this doesn't pass.
So...what are we meant to do with this info? Call up our local legislators (if we live in CA) and tell them to pass it? (Or...not pass it? I'm honestly confused what the author wants.) There's no call to action here I can see, probably because there's nothing meaningful to do, in which case...maybe take a few more days and make a readable analysis of whatever ends up passing? Because this just feels like fearmongering.
Right. If there are any major issues, the companies can pay the government to make it how they want. They surely will anyhow. Very sad for the small businesses that will suffer, but I can’t reason to worry for them more than the all the millions mustering a life in the surveillance state without small business capital. It sounds rough but something has to change yesterday. Let the corporations work out the details for once and if you honestly want small businesses to have a voice, simply vote for candidates who don’t accept corporate campaign donations. That’s where it starts.
There are no founders left on HN anymore: most commenters here with newish accounts have no idea what it takes to start or run a business themselves.
I have started a business and sold 4 years ago. I understand your point.
Mine is more about asking what pace of commercial enterprise a society can and should bear. Why must everyone carry the burdens of our greatest risk takers? Life has many facets. Some of them cannot be bought and sold, and some of them shouldn’t be. Businesses come and go like flies. Civil societies are harder to come by.