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Because those things dramatically impact society's health and well-being and not being able to do whatever it is that a Slingbox does... doesn't?

e-waste is among the worst flavors of post-consumer waste. If a lack of corporate attention span is meaningfully driving up its creation, then it's probably in society's interest to pay attention to that issue.

> Why do we need a law that requires cars to have backup cameras?

That one is definitely part of the car upgrade treadmill rather than fully supported by evidence. It's also far from universal.

(See also "e-call", the EU proposal that cars should automatically text their location to the police when involved in an accident)

because cloud services for broadcast tv are none of those things.