"prohibits manufacturers from using a "chasing arrows" recycling symbol on products or materials unless they are actually being recycled in a meaningful way,"
The "manufacturers" and "being recycled" What is the goal here?
Manufacturers don't know what the end customer does or what the customers recycling options are.

"but you can sue" Really? In the US Civil Justice system the side with the most money "usually" wins. So what options do you really have in the courts.

You have to admit the Book Publishing business looks pretty buggy whippy atm.
And related to Authors and others, yea they got robbed, but when it comes to LLM generated material not sure how it gets stopped now.
You are already seeing huge mountains of garbage burying things of value.
And going forward anything put on the Internet will be scraped if it has a hint of value.

The western economies need to start giving these Activist Trillions every year to prevent the future AI-agedden!
We must Act Today! We only have 10 years!

"Are you suggesting California is particularly bad" God No! I live in MN where the PAN(Politician-Activist-NGO) grift is still purring along.
There are few things more dangerous to taxpayers than an Activist with a public service job.

For the "Just ask Clippy" advertising campaign.

""useful" internet" maybe? But "Corporate/Government Internet" might be more accurate.

Block Cloudflare, maybe? But if I re call correctly I am starting to see sites that won't render until you unblock Cloudflare

Once, the one time 5% is spent the state will have to figure out how to do the one time 5% more than once to keep feeding the spending machine.
The problem is Fraud, Grift and run away Government spending can not co exist so they will need to do something different at some point.

If today's LLM's "automation posing as AI" is a wrong track this might be a good thing.

"This is rare in the world of today's policing." BS when you look at the number of interactions police have nation wide, the # going bad are very low. The bad ones are the exception not the norm!

"our privacy is for sale" your privacy was sold, and you were not involved in the transaction.

They just can't help but be evil and invasive.
This stuck out " and their surroundings" everything from their porn glasses, making "your" photos public for use by others and things like this are creepy.
And Meta just keeps getting creepier.

Until the political situation in Washington DC becomes more pliable($$$) again. Then it is business as usual.

At least they hope this empty feature will get their product accepted.
Their only problem is the biggest market for this product will end up harming many and helping few.