Our lawmakers, courts and judges are just clueless about anything that has to do with "computers". While the digital ate most of our societies in the last decades their framework did not fundamentally evolved. And open source made things way worst for them.

Their biggest success has been to limit the use of digital/cryptocurrencies for now. But now that the US has picked that system as an ultimate outlet for the survival of the dollar, I don't believe there is gonna be much resistance anymore.

Add to that the whole AI can of worms...