alt Hacker NewsWe need something. We need some way to force people to act responsibly. The amount of yeeting hundreds of thousands of lines of code without proper review or testing should have consequences.
We need something. We need some way to force people to act responsibly. The amount of yeeting hundreds of thousands of lines of code without proper review or testing should have consequences.
We needed something 20 years ago when Google decided to take over the browser to ensure nothing is stopping them from tracking you wherever they want.
We needed something 10 years ago when Cambridge Analytica showed that the consequences of the above are not just limited to the internet.
Google now writes the web standards and TikTok is telling people how to vote. Between the incentives and the fact that politicians don't understand tech, the only thing they'll end up forcing is "hundreds of thousands of untested, unreviewed code for authorized professionals"
What do you do with open source, with the arguments calling software speech?