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If you spend much time on social media, particularly Twitter/X, you know that a bunch of people have suddenly noticed that in 2027 a provision requiring automobile manufacturers to include a "kill switch" in your car is about to go into effect.
This provision was supported by Democrats and dozens and dozens of Republicans in the House, and that's how it became law (as part of a piece of federal legislation pertaining to "infrastructure investment and jobs").
Now there's one particular congressman who happens to have led the way in opposing the kill switch, offering an amendment to remove that provision, and some 164 Republican congressmen voted in favor of this congressman's amendment.
Those 164 votes were not enough to overcome all the Democrats or the 57 Republicans (including the execrable Congressman Randy Fine) who decided government officials ought to be able to shut down your car.
Because of the congressman I'm telling you about but haven't yet named, I already knew about the kill switch issue, long before it was suddenly discovered yesterday by the social media world.
The mandated technology must passively monitor driver performance (via cameras, sensors, AI, etc., tracking things like eye movement, steering, and swerving) and automatically prevent or limit operation of the vehicle if it detects possible impairment, as from alcohol or drugs.
The congressman says the mandate forces constant government-mandated surveillance into every new car, thereby turning personal vehicles into tools for behavior monitoring and control. He argues that this sets a dangerous precedent for regulators to manage individual conduct through technology.
Further, the car becomes "judge, jury, and executioner." There is no appeal process if the system wrongly disables the vehicle. The dashboard/AI system makes an instantaneous, unappealable decision with life-altering consequences.
As the congressman says, "The looming Orwellian automobile kill switch deadline threatens civil liberties. When your car shuts down because it doesn’t approve of your driving, how will you appeal your roadside conviction?"
Then, too, he says, the technology is unworkable and prone to dangerous false positives. "The technology needed for this doesn’t even exist," says the congressman. He offers examples such as a driver swerving in a snowstorm to avoid a pet or obstacle, only for the car to shut down because the system misreads it as impairment.
Not that anyone cares anymore, but the congressman also notes that the measure is unconstitutional, and that obviously no such power was granted to the federal government.
And it drives up car costs, but we already know our overlords don't care about that.
I presume you know by now that the congressman in question is Thomas Massie, the man we are inexplicably urged to hate. (It's not actually inexplicable; you and I know the reason.)
FOX News watchers are finding out about the kill switch only this week, because that network has blackballed Massie, who's been banned for 18 months.
Some of the worst Republicans imaginable have revolving-door access to FOX News, but Massie, who has one of the best voting records of any congressman in the past two hundred years, can't be allowed to speak.
That's always how it goes: the left gets a pass, and the right gets the hammer. Especially within Conservatism, Inc.
Much respect for Massie -- who, if the Republican Party weren't full of losers, would have prevented this Orwellian provision from becoming federal law.
Now by coincidence, right now I happen to be offering a four-week masterclass on how to force social media to do your bidding: how to get your ideas (even unpopular ones) seen by lots of people, and how to use it to make more sales and generate more subscribers.
We all criticize social media, but without it Massie would have been seriously impaired in his ability to communicate with the public. So when we’re inclined to denounce it, we need to remember that.
Whatever we may think about some of the individuals involved in them, these platforms have hundreds of millions of members. Ron Paul didn’t refuse to appear in the Republican presidential debates on the grounds that the debates were being covered by evil institutions like CBS News and CNN, after all. He wanted to reach people, so he did those debates anyway.
You and I also need to reach people. But social media is frustrating: you post and post and get no traction. Then you see Laura Loomer getting massive traction, and life seems unfair.
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