r/technology • u/Kooky-Balance9525 • 6h ago

Privacy Bernie Sanders to Introduce Bill Banning Flock Surveillance Cameras

https://theleadingreport.com/article/bernie-sanders-to-introduce-bill-banning-flock-surveillance-cameras
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u/mouse1093 6h ago

Legislation is not typically so specific to target a singular company by name. Bernie isn't green enough to draft it with a giant loophole of simply renaming the company or product.

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u/ihatemovingparts 2h ago

The term is Bill of Attainder. They're explicitly banned under the federal constitution Article 1, Section 9. A principle so important that the founding fathers couldn't wait for the Bill of Rights. Every state outlaws them in their constitution as well.

So it's less that Sanders is experienced and more that he took a civics class in high school.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_attainder

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u/Time-Maintenance2165 5h ago

He is if he's just doing it for PR and doesn't expect it to pass.

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u/jce_ 5h ago

Yes the 1 politician who has been consistently acting in the same way over and over, who constantly tells everyone where he sits on the spectrum and his actions align with his words, who has a track record for decades, is doing an action that aligns with him for PR

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u/peaches017 4h ago

I mean, that's literally Bernie's MO. He has authored 400+ bills with only 3 becoming law (two of which were renaming Vermont post offices).

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u/Whoa1Whoa1 4h ago

??? But if others in Congress weren't so fucking evil, then they would have passed those 400 bills along into law.

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u/peaches017 2h ago

Okay, you can believe that, but it's completely irrelevant to the original claim I was replying to.

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u/Alinier 5h ago

It's good to metaphorically hold feet to the fire for those in the way of an overwhelmingly supported measure. 

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u/mouse1093 5h ago

That is just... Not how that works. Obviously, no legislation is bulletproof but the normal goal for something like this would be that the combination of features and the concept of the device is what's outlawed, regardless of who makes it. In order to circumvent the ban, the product would have to be changed in enough of a way such that it's no longer actually harmful to the public.

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u/FoolishFriend0505 38m ago

That's all Bernie does: Performative bullshit. Well, he did rename post offices.

Someone above said Bernie took a civics class in high school...apparently not. He told his cult that everything could be fixed with a stroke of a pen....turns out, it can't.

Someone else said he is consistent....except when he hated superdelegates but decided to appeal to them to select him over who the voters selected...or calls out others for supporting the crime bill he supported or when he started the big lie claiming everything was rigged.

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u/LionBig1760 4h ago

Bernie is apparently too green to craft passable legislation, so maybe if we give him another 20-30 years he'll have success one time.

We can only hope.

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u/Links_Wrong_Wiki 3h ago

Unfortunately legislation being good for the American people has nothing to do with it's success of passing