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I'm all in favor of this bill, I think it's an important step in the right direction, but let's temper our expectations and replace "will" with "should" or "might" in the headline.


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It is a nice idea, but until such time as the actual text of the bill is available to be read, I'm skeptical.

I can hope, however.


Yeah, I feel like a lot of the outrage here is from the title, not the contents of the bill itself. I'm fully in favor of this effort.

As nice as that would be, I think they probably thought including that in the bill would greatly increase the risk of it failing to pass. What we've gotten here is an improvement, even if it could be better.

>it's expected to be the first of many similar bills across the country,

Do you favor that? Why or why not?


> If you don't like it, change it.

That's what this bill is about.


EFF has it right. Is this bill perfect? No, but we need to support movement in the right direction.

At least we know it. In the future, it will be "AI, rephrase that bill to resonate better with my voters" and no proofreading.

I agree but worry that could derail this good legislation.

Yeah, sounds good to me. Maybe some AOC staffer will read this comment and put it in the next bill.

Whether it's this bill or not, this kind of legislation is inevitable, isn't it?

So isn't that in favour of what this bill is attempting to accomplish?

It's a good bill iff it proves effective. I'm optimistic that it will, but that still remains to be seen.

(An ineffective bill can be worse than none at all, since it's existence may confuse people who believe they have protection when in reality the legislation is less effective than their perception of it.)


I don't think the bill will pass in its current form. Can't see it happening.

Amazing step forward it seems, but not without it's issues.

I'm cautiously optimistic, but we need to see a finalized version of this bill before we get excited or disappointed.


Title translation: supporting this bill polls well.

No, of course it won't, you know that it won't, and your attempt to try to misrepresent the proposed bill by suggesting that it will is petty and dangerous.

Seems a bit premature to vote on the bill before reading its text, eh?

That's an odd take. It's quite possible that the bill will eventually get through the House.

It’s just a proposed bill at this point. To say it’s definitely coming is a bit too strong.
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