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The problem for tech companies is that the law builds in mechanisms to ensure that the protocols are sufficiently robust and actually enforced. The law would eventually require outside auditors to review the protocols, and from the start, it would protect whistleblowers within firms who come forward to show that protocols are not being followed. The law thus makes real what the companies say they are already doing.
✏️ Here’s the crux of the matter. Common sense and logic says to put in rules and regulations that protect us from catastrophes. And technically the companies are saying they are doing that anyways. So, at face value, why would there be any resistance? Obviously, it’s because they don’t want to be monitored and audited and double-checked. They want free reign to do as they please and lie as they please without the threat of being caught. 🔗 View Highlight
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But if they’re already creating these safety protocols, why do we need a law to mandate it? First, because, as some within the industry assert directly, existing guidelines are often inadequate, and second, as whistleblowers have already revealed, some companies are not following the protocols that they have adopted. Opposition to SB1047 is thus designed to ensure that safety is optional— something they can promise but that they have no effective obligation to deliver.