What ever happened to "state's rights"?
I guess that was just a convenient excuse to keep people as slaves, huh? 🤷
this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2025
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Look, I don't understand whether they want states' rights or not. Because one moment they're in favor of the federal government having power, and the next they're in favor of the states having power.
Because if they want states to have power, they should only be concerned with things that affect their state. If another state makes bad decisions, we can only hope that its population corrects those mistakes as quickly as possible.
Or if they want the federal government to have power, everyone should be informed of changes, both the population and the states. These laws should benefit the majority.
There is also a third option: there should be a balance between state and federal power.
These two raging assholes just want easier monopolies.
Anything either of those two says, the rest of us can be sure it's not to our benefit.
Exactly, they created this nightmare dystopia, sunk all their money into AI and if we don't allow them to just invade our privacy like it's their personal kingdom, and we exist to feed their data centers, they're fucked.
The entire economy is fucked, but that's 100% on them.
They wanted to just dive in head first, cut a bunch of jobs and replace everyone with AI. Who in their right mind would think that we should allow these people fewer regulations now, so they can make more money via exploitation of humans?
That’s not very “states rights” of them.
Par for the course though. Orwell called it.
Federal intervention in states to enforce civil rights= unjust burden on states
Federal intervention in states to enforce immigration policy= send in the national guard to "liberate LA"
State regulations on AI= patchwork regulations won't benefit ~~corporations~~ the country
Federal regulations on AI= these regulations are underpinned by the values we believe are important. Surely we've already proven over and over again you can trust us to do what's right for ~~corporations~~ the country.
Never forget, corporations are people.
Do it! Regulate these fuckers out of existence!
Exactly!
Oh regulations would cut into your profits? Boo fucking hoo
I thought they cared about states rights?
How are they able to even ban states from passing laws
I'm not 100% sure about actually preventing states from creating laws, but given what's happening in my city rn I would imagine, if this passes, it gives federal agencies and private companies the ability to legally ignore any city and state regulations that might be passed.
My city used to have a complete ban on facial recognition and predictive policing tech after they were caught secretly working with Palantir. In 2022, the mayor requested the ban be lifted and replaced with an ordinance.
Police in my city got caught violating the very weak ordinance that regulates how facial recognition is supposed to be used.
Since WaPo exposed them, they've allegedly paused using the tech. However, the tech is provided by a private company, and the city can't enforce their regulations on the state police and ICE agents that are still using the tech with zero oversight.
Given how we know states like TX have already signed up to have their national guard invade other states in order to enforce Trump's immigration policy, this could provide legal protection for the Texas national guard to come into a state like California and use it however they deem necessary.
They could start out by saying it's necessary to enforce immigration (which would be fucked up enough). Very quickly it becomes necessary to protect ICE agents from protestors, and they begin using facial recognition to track protestors and anyone loosely associated with protestors.
There's no way for the city or state laws to do anything about this bc the Texas National Guard have essentially been given blanket protection by a federal law to use AI to enforce federal immigration policy. Essentially, instead of the national guard being sent to southern states to enforce civil rights like what happened in the 1960s, the national guard from a red state would be sent into a blue state to enforce a dystopian cyber-surveillance nightmare created by the federal government.
Keep in mind this is just one possibility. Even without all that happening, the best case scenario of allowing a ban on state regulations, is you're providing legal protection for private corporations to collect data however they want and do whatever they want with it once it's collected.