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Montana Becomes First State to Enshrine ‘Right to Compute’ Into Law - Montana Newsroom (montananewsroom.com)
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[–] 42 points 11 months ago (10 children)

Promise this will be nothing good for Montana or it's citizens.

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  • [–] 28 points 11 months ago (9 children)

    Its Orwellian double-speak. It implements restrictions on how people in Montana are allowed to use their personal property (computers) where no restrictions existed before.

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Figured it was something like this.

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago* (2 children)

    Don't listen to them; they're full of shit. The bill restricts the government from restricting use of private compute resources unless they can prove they don't have a less restrictive way of addressing a legitimate problem.

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    I just read the bill. Where are you seeing restrictions? I'm reading it as restrictions are banned unless there is compelling reason for the government to enact such restrictions. That's all well enough defined.

    EDIT: I was wrong on the DCs. Restricting them is specifically called out in the bill. Good deal!

    Only negative thing I'm seeing is this seems to make banning new DCs a lot tougher.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Tell me you haven't read the bill without telling me you haven't read the bill.

    It absolutely does not place restrictions on the use of personal property. It does the exact opposite.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    It's a whopping 6 pages and mostly double-spaced and more white space. And lemmy upvotes these cynical comments without a shred of investigation.

    I'm reading it as making data centers harder to block, now I'm not so sure. Your take?

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 child)

    The bill explicitly states that data centers being a public nuisance is a "Compelling government interest," so I don't think it's geared towards protecting data centers.

    taking actions that prevent or abate common law nuisances created by physical datacenter infrastructure.

    Edit: there is one major issue with the bill; it still keeps the door open for age verification.

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