Re: [hrpc] FCC's new Internet regulatory gambit and human rights

[Tony Rutkowski <[e-mail]>]

Bill,

It is not just the "smug Eurocrats."  It appears obvious that the 
equally smug FCC-crats have been working closely with the Eurocrats, and 
in some respects, the FCC provisions are even more onerous and expansive 
that Europe's.  The FCC-crats also appear to be attempting to make its 
"voluntary" scheme effectively mandatory by hitching a ride on the 
mandatory EU regulations via a mutual recognition agreement.

--tony r

On 3/28/2024 11:12 AM, Bill Woodcock wrote:
>> On Mar 28, 2024, at 15:54, Vittorio Bertola <vittorio.bertola=[e-mail]> wrote:
>> The risk of underfunded, volunteer-based software projects used at large scale is just not socially bearable any more, they think; someone must take liability for their security, which needs to be based on some kind of standard practices.
> My prediction: If this actually goes where the smug Eurocrats intend, they will congratulate themselves for having solved the problem.  Meanwhile, productive European open-source authors will no longer be able to afford the liability of doing what they do, and will either have to stop, or publish from legal entities in the US, where nobody ever has to answer for bad software, ever.  Because, you know, then Google and Microsoft and Facebook would face liability, and the USG exists to prevent that.
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