Appliances that accept undocumented remote control signals are banned

Legislative bodies must make detailed records of lawmakers’ position & involvement with every law and publish them in JSON or XML format

Meat overstocking prohibited

🐄 🐔🦆🐖🦐🦑🐟 Ramen noodle packaging must depict icons of every animal-based product it contains

Every steer and cow must be given access to a broom or rake to scratch their own backs

💸 public money may not be spent on Motorola or HP products

“Withstanding” and “notwithstanding” words banned from legal documents

All docs from public services must have an FTP distribution

When police neglect to use surveillance to protect actual victims, they must relinquish the surveillance

Anti-scraping mechanisms that prevent access to product and price info constitutes an anti-competitive act

Government requests for a person’s email address must include a disclosure of who the gov’s email processor is

No more red lights for cyclists

25-year ban on carnivals

Large appliance retailers must sell Bus Pirates and Flipper Zeros

Selling a product where price is the sole quality indicator is banned. Performance specs required. Esp. bathroom fixtures. (update: also chef’s knives)

FOIA requests must be fulfilled GRATIS if they request data that is CAPTCHA-encumbered or unreachable to some demographics of people

A recorded delivery cannot be refused on the basis of who the courrier is

Make and model must be printed on the exterior of every manfactured device

washing machines must keep a load count (like an odometer)

Here's a small one for the zerowaste folks - all jars must be compatible with canning lids

Right to repair law to expand under an open data principle and a right to be offline principle

Corporations who break the law must pay a minimum penalty of $1k to anyone who sues them for it.

data breached companies must offer $100 cash in lieu of credit monitoring services to those who opt-out of credit monitoring

Banks/CUs must respond in-band to customers via the same mechanism they were approached -- or pay $500

Every new dwelling must be a passive dwelling (house/apartment) -- even when there is a housing shortage

If your business is cashless but payment can be deferred, you lose your collection rights

When a tech corporation decides to hi-jack generic tech words like “threads” or “gemini” for commercial branding, they must compensate the community for rebranding costs

The government shall not generally finance or procure non-vegan meals

When a copyright holder of non-free hardware-bound software stops distributing and maintaining their source code, they must release it publicly

All applications the government deploys for the public to run on their own hardware shall be 100% FOSS (public money → public code)

Government websites shall not use Cloudflare

Fat people can’t have cars

Banks outside GDPR regions cannot send you any e-mail without your express consent