Cory Doctorow on Nostr: Congress hasn't passed a consumer privacy law since 1988, when they banned video ...
Congress hasn't passed a consumer privacy law since 1988, when they banned video store clerks from telling newspapers about your VHS viewing habits. That's why Tiktok is a problem. Pass that law, and if *any* president decides not to enforce it, I'll be mad as hell and I'll be right there in the streets next to you, in head-to-toe CV dazzle, with all my distraction rectangles in Faraday pouches, shlepping a placard with the Social Security Numbers of every Cabinet member.
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