Laws move slowly relative to tech, allowing companies to basically get away with things that aren’t illegal “yet”. They know they can rapidly build a thing, and benefit for (probably) years before anyone is able to stop them.
We may need more talented tech people to pause and consider entering lawmaking, in order to find more ways to apply the speed of tech to laws. Why the hell for instance do we not have a “GitHub for bills”, allowing rapid turnaround for edits and full revision history? We should be building tools to accelerate public participation and review by all parties required to make new laws so that it can be done quickly. It should take weeks or months, not years, between the time a company does a questionable thing and a verdict is handed down on whether or not it should be illegal.
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[ 54.3 ms ] story [ 33.0 ms ] threadWe may need more talented tech people to pause and consider entering lawmaking, in order to find more ways to apply the speed of tech to laws. Why the hell for instance do we not have a “GitHub for bills”, allowing rapid turnaround for edits and full revision history? We should be building tools to accelerate public participation and review by all parties required to make new laws so that it can be done quickly. It should take weeks or months, not years, between the time a company does a questionable thing and a verdict is handed down on whether or not it should be illegal.