Here is a link to learn more about the bill.
It is also important to note this legislation also includes language for ongoing, real-time monitoring. Not just verification
Here is a summary from the link shared above:
Requires manufacturers of internet-enabled devices to conduct age assurance to determine a user’s age category and provide all websites, online services, online applications and mobile applications on such user’s internet-enabled device and/or application store manufactured by the covered manufacturer with a digital signal that such user is a covered minor as well as the age category of such covered minor via a real-time application programming interface (API).
You are encouraged to have an opinion about this. It is obvious what is happening here.
Do you have the spine to be remembered?
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The real world, filled with everyday people, needs individuals who embody a willingness to say “Get fucked!”
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Legislators have no idea how technical stuff works. Imagine imposing this requirement on a Raspberry Pi, which has no document scanner or webcam to scan your Government Approved ID or Unique Human Face. Either the device has to be mandated to include a camera or some other similar bullshit, or it doesn’t have a way to scan your face or ID. So it would be noncompliant by default, but if you could mandate a camera is included, then you’d have to mandate that it requires the scan and gatekeeps the operation of the device without it, and so on… just a bunch of ridiculous bullshit.
Technically a raspberry pi does not need to be an internet connected device but also consider,
- Smart fridges
- robot vacuums/lawn mowers
- some lightbulbs
You are still acting under the assumption that we will be allowed purchase our own hardware like a Raspberry Pi, or some stick of RAM to upgrade our desktop PC.
They want us on dumb terminals like in WallE, consuming the content they want us to see, and squashing the inconvenient truths they don’t like.
Does your little Blueberry cake or whatever have Microsoft SecureBoot Copilot Plus? No? It’s ILLEGAL and you can go to JAIL for having it! SURRENDER TO THE AI DRONE NOW.
The real problem is that I’m not being hyperbolic.
I mean, even high power desktops don’t generally come WITH those devices.
I imagine this would be implemented for devices that come with that stuff, which already tells you how easy it will be for actual predators and criminals to avoid this shit while everyone else gets fucked.
So all this is supposed to be part of what lobbies do - provide subject matter input, recommendations, and direction to lawmakers, so that said lawmakers can make better laws. This protects the lobbies’ interests because they aren’t forced to do unreasonable shit just to comply with nonsense laws.
BUT Citizens United happened, and now lobbies are for funneling money to politicians so that they will produce laws that benefit you, as a company/org, and not the general interest.
I heard it was Meta pushing all this age verification legislation all over the country. And of not, I’m sure it’s some other evil company.
Both Meta and Alphabet are at the helm here. Both companies are co-owned by DARPA folks.
If it ever gets to this point, I have a ton of books to read. I just won’t use a computer anymore. You’ll find me under a tree in a park reading 1984.
We can build our own internet. With meshtastic. And closed networks.
I don’t think meshtastic will scale that well
I’ll go back to buying porn in person with cash.
“So just ball bludgeoners 2, heavy breathing from the closet 42, and my little cumshot: friendship with benefits. Will that be all?”
“Toss in a tube of KY and a hemorrhoid cream. Mama’s going cave diving tonight.”
It didn’t feel even remotely normal even when it was normal.
I dunno, I’ve been in plenty of porn and sex shops and the atmosphere was usually reminiscent of a convenience store with sparkles. It’s genuinely not a big deal, unless you begin spontaneously masturbating in the aisle. Paying for porn again, that’s the weird part for me.
We’re going back to usenet
Where is the link for this?
