On 7/24/24 16:18, Steve Litt wrote:
Before you call lawsuits nice, contemplate that it might cause
employment contracts to have indemnification clauses. For developers,
this would be anything but nice.
I would like computers to be treated a little more the way we treat
normal stuff.
When Boeing commits felonies they don't have to go to jail as would you
or I (something wrong there), but they still do get punished with big
fines. I think that is a good thing. And no, I don't think individual
Boeing workers should have employment contracts shoved down their
throats that shifts Boeing's liabilities to them. That's why I also
believe in laws and regulations to counter out the power imbalance
between an individual employee and a powerful employer.
As much as the climbing gym or restaurant might like to be protected
from liabilities by forcing customers to give a waiver, I also think
that should not be allowed to stand either.
I don't think the cellphone company should be able to shove binding
agreements down my throat by making me agree some 30-pages of giving
them rights and powers.
(All this stuff is tricky. Actually working out the details is a good
thing. Having actual laws and lawyers is a good thing. I don't pretend
to know exactly how such laws should be written.)
-kb, the Kent who is not a Libertarian.
P.S. Libertarianism n.
A political ideology premised on the assumption that eliminating
government would have no unintended consequences.
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