Montana has made history as the first state in the U.S. to legally protect its citizens’ right to access and use computational tools and artificial intelligence technologies. Governor Greg Gianforte signed Senate Bill 212, officially known as the Montana Right to Compute Act (MRTCA), into law. The groundbreaking legislation affirms Montanans’ fundamental right to own […]
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.
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.
Only negative thing I’m seeing is this seems to make banning new DCs a lot tougher.
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.
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?
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.
Edit: there is one major issue with the bill; it still keeps the door open for age verification.
Missed that line! Thanks!
Figured it was something like this.
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.
But you don’t understand, we all hate AI so much that this must be evil somehow.
Which is funny because the bill explicitly states that deepfakes and data centers are things the government can restrict.