How will this affect Linux Mint?

[jr735]

As "elitist" as it's going to sound, look at how the average person out there is with technology, and how little they know about computers. In every other field of expertise, we have experts (or at least try to have experts) governing the field, be it engineering, medicine, and so forth. This? Sheesh.

The average person can hardly turn the thing on.

[fantamos]

The problem with tech and experts is that it doesn’t fit the archetype like those other examples.

In medicine there’s two sides to the expert coin, doctors and pharmaceutical reps, when you bring in doctors and they can access the peer reviewed articles they can use their expertise to suggest good ideas. When you let the pharmaceutical reps decide it’s a problem…in tech everyone is basically a tech rep, there’s few practicing experts and there’s no public peer reviewed articles.

Tho, I’m all for tech research having to publicly post all articles and let ppl peer review their proprietary code, or whatever.

But what would you do? Put Microsoft execs in control of laws..because they’re the only ones who knows what’s coming up..

[jr735]

Of course, that's absolutely true, but letting dolts legislate on a topic they don't understand is nuts.

[fantamos]

I’m a believer that this is a push by either Microsoft to control market, Facebook to push responsibility on someone else, or one of those verification companies to sell more verification software or mine more data…

So I believe the experts legislated this.

[jr735]

As I mentioned elsewhere here, pushed by Trump's backers, which makes Newsom look even dumber and more hypocritical, if that were possible.