Some of us (for whom Charisma is not their dump stat) need to get elected to national legislative assemblies and form technology and engineering caucuses.
Possible items for its agenda:
- Right to Repair
- Right to Tinker
- Right to "Pwn Ur Own"
- Hardware sellers required to deliver firmware source to buyers
--- including build scripts
--- including device-specific signing keys
--- even for cars and tractors
- Public APIs required for public-facing services
- Right to non-backdoored strong encryption
- Formal requirements for custodianship of PII
- Formal requirements for security in IoT devices
- Ban on local monopolies on wired telecoms
- Definitions for terms used in advertising (i.e. "5G")
- Establish a separate USPTO regime specifically for computer programs
The lawyers of the Boomer generation that seem to be running the show now are not very well-suited to understand the near-future problems in the technology field. A lot of these problems are better solved by strongarming companies into behaving more eusocially than by attempting a technical solution or starting disruptive competitor businesses.