Totally reasonable take for a pragmatic career lawyer. But I am not a lawyer or a politician and I could not care less if I lose political points with people trying to exert control over the function of software on peoples private devices under some obviously bullshit "save the children" narrative.

I am an active FOSS maintainer who wishes to protect the privacy, security, and sovereignty of users of community owned operating systems. My goal is to signal to them that we find these types of laws so completely ridiculous and unenforceable, that they should worry less about maintainers injecting state malware into their operating systems. Also it is to signal to other maintainers they will not be alone in resisting this.

With those goals in mind I am happy to tell any legislators pushing this sort of thing, to eat shit.

> But I am not a lawyer or a politician

Neither is Prof. Bernstein. The observation is not oriented to lawyers or politicians; it is oriented towards how to succeed when judges and politicians make the rules.