alt Hacker NewsCan you be specific in how you think he is behaving unintelligently, and what you think that people will do in response to his actions?
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Pretending like technical limitations protect him from being in violation of the law like another commentator made an analogy to handcuffing yourself to property you were told to leave?
His comments on this thread itself which establish intent to not comply with the law?
All power to him for going with his morals but he’s making unforced errors and should instead be contacting one of the several activist legal firms that would at least give him advice on how to protect himself and not follow through with this law if not outright pro bono legal defense.
No one is asking me to add code to stagex right now, so there is no actual legal situation I am in.
I am not even an owner of the project, I founded the project, but am now just one of many volunteer contributors. Are they going to mandate wikipedia volunteers alter pages to state guidelines as well?
We must not be afraid of stuff like this. It is blatant overreach I do not expect would stand legal challenge.
I am simply saying I would refuse to write code I do not want to write. I am honestly surprised people think this is such a scary thing to say.
The point of saying this publicly is not in order to harm or help my own defense of a court order from another state I will probably get.
It is to signal to legislators that if they decide to take this fight, it will be done with people not afraid to do it all in public to establish public trust. It is not even okay that people -think- it is possible for our FOSS projects to be altered or backdoored by any random state officials.
What next, asking Torvalds to add KYC to the kernel?
I'll bite. His statements in this very forum could he used against him as evidence of intent to violate the law, should he be prosecuted someday.
There's a reason why lawyers generally advise their clients to remain silent.