The tech industry is not ready for pervasive internet enabled devices that have microphones, cameras, or control heavy machinery. It all needs to be taken out. Aside from the threat to human life (due to malfunctioning vehicle software), we're heading straight for a dystopia where you can get arrested for walking down the street and committing a thought crime because every house will have cameras facing the street hooked into some company like Amazon that will simply be commandeered by the government to "fight crime because if you aren't giving us access to your camera you aren't against crime".
I don't know what legal movements this needs, it has to be something that doesn't backfire. The obvious thing to do is just ban Amazon from selling products like Ring, and remove software and radio communication from home appliances and vehicles. Software in a television shouldn't be legal. It has environmental consequences too not just privacy (which right now is a problem since every TV just scans what your watching and reports back to the company.
how does this even have 200 upvotes? i cant count more than 1 or 2 websites that doesnt have infinite bloat for useless nonsense like the cookie popup social media whatever 10 meme frameworks and 100 js libs injected into the page. HNers just read "bad stuff bad", respond "yup" like a zombie, and continue doing bad stuff