"Restricted Boot" Garrett's State is Now Implementing Kill Switches (Just What We've Warned About All Along)

The Free Software Foundation has published comments opposing California Governor Gavin Newsom's executive order on artificial intelligence, arguing the order advances remote "kill switch" powers over computing. The FSF post links the order to the existing UEFI "Restricted Boot" mechanism and to the proposed AI Kill Switch Act, which critics compare to the 1990s Clipper chip. The commentary contends that deployed AI systems that should have been pulled offline have not been, so any kill switch would be used for purposes other than reining in large language models.

"Restricted Boot" Garrett's State is Now Implementing Kill Switches Just What We've Warned About All Along The underlying concept is hardly new https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11736545 . In practice, the kill switches already exist they got implemented and deployed , now they're being legislated in the state where Garrett and his spouse https://techrights.org/n/2026/05/26/SLAPP Censorship Part 88 Out of 200 Brett Wilson LLP is Defamin.shtml live. The Free Software Foundation has just issued "comments on Newsom's executive order on so-called artificial intelligence" https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/2026-comments-on-newsoms-california-executive-order . This is significant c.f. "The AI Kill Switch Act is repeating the Clipper Chips mistakes" https://cyberscoop.com/ai-kill-switch-act-clipper-chip-mistakes-op-ed/ . So they're working towards having state powers to kill things remotely - a kill switch basically . Imagine what this would mean to foreign nations https://techrights.org/n/2026/03/11/An American War on GNU Linux Software Freedom and British Inves.shtml . As we said before, the GGG brigade "Restricted Boot" https://techrights.org/wiki/UEFI/ G arrett, "Microsoft Plagiarism" https://techrights.org/o/2023/02/10/copilot-in-court/ G raveley & " G as The Jews" Lozza was a response to things I've written since 2012 against Microsoft's "Restricted Boot", culminating in SLAPP letters in 2021 https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/05/Explaining the Letter From JUDGE SYKES FRIXOU Threatening Me Ar.shtml . What we're seeing here is a US state California, where Garrett of "Restricted Boot" infamy lives and works for a slop company working towards greater control over computing and "also one of the blogs pointed out that the LLMs are performing in such a way that they should have been pulled offline long ago already but haven't," an associate reminds us. "Thus that demonstrates already that any "kill switch" is going to be used for just about any purpose except reining in LLMs." "It's not the slop which is relevant but the kill switch, which in the case of the existing slop, has not been used. This goes back to the Clipper chip and is germane to software freedom / freedom in general. Restricted boot and TPM also fit into that puzzle..." "The existing slop situation shows solidly that even in circumstances where the plug should be pulled, the plug is not getting pulled. Rather the slop peddlers are fanning the flames further. So if the kill switch is not for slop, what is it really intended for? Hint: same as restricted boot, clipper, etc." Imagine what a dumb person would say; that it's "computer security" to put kill switches that update themselves every 12 hours https://techrights.org/n/2026/09/29/Computers Freeze Because of UEFI Restricted Boot.shtml you're never in control, this cannot be turned off . Such "computer security" is promoted by people with no background in Computer Science 1 https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/14/SLAPP Censorship Part 149 Out of 200 It Took a Long Time to Sho.shtml , 2 https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/15/SLAPP Censorship Part 150 Out of 200 Always Independently Verif.shtml , just a rude Twitter account https://techrights.org/n/2026/03/27/SLAPP Censorship Part 25 Out of 200 That Time Matthew J Garrett.shtml and self-curated Wikipedia page https://techrights.org/n/2026/03/21/Never Trust People Who Write Their Own Wikipedia Pages Vanity P.shtml . Of course we can trust "MAGA" to control kill switches deployed to every country https://www.computerweekly.com/opinion/Microsofts-ICC-email-block-reignites-European-data-sovereignty-concerns , right? █ top