alt Hacker NewsOne issue that I have with many of these videos - what precisely is "this"? What issue is being addressed and what changes are proposed? It's entirely issue-adjacent slogans of "Amazon cheats, we will hurt them". And if I've learned anything from the most recent executive branch campaigns/elections, it's that vaguely defined "we'll get them" will get you elected but won't promise any meaningful changes other than power for the elected.
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I don’t think this video is about hurting anybody. It’s about making sure that large companies can be held liable if they hurt somebody. This is about protecting people.
This video isn’t an attempt to get elected, since he’s six months into a term.
It’s an attempt to build political support for passing a specific piece of legislation. It’s not “vaguely defined”, it refers to a specific bill that he wants to pass that has legislative text available on the internet.
This is a concrete bill. It's the opponents that are going to need the catchy slogan to successfully defeat it.
Or bribes.
The bill[1], which is named in the video, is available on the public Internet.
1 - https://legistar.council.nyc.gov/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=7...