So, OS-level age-gating is going federal, which will effectively kill your rights to device ownership and what’s left of free speech and expression.
Enjoy your free speech while you still have it because this is a clear attempt to erase that right.
SOPA never died, it just went into hiding until time to reemerge, and now’s that time, this is basically SOPA in a save the kids trenchcoat.
Motherfuckers want this so they can more easily find kiddies to groom and rape.
Start selling the narrative folks, this is not gonna be a clean war
Fair.
Parents ALREADY decided. They decided they didn’t give enough of a shit to use the parental controls already available to them. No legitimate reason to push this shit on everyone else.
These companies made parental controls abysmal to use, so they can count children’s traffic as adult viewers for ad revenue(on both sides of the bill).
Obligatory: the Democrats are not here to save you.
Fascism with a smug smile instead of a sneer.
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This bill is being pushed by Meta and they are NOT going to stop with age verification. It is not about “protecting children” and it never has been. It’s always been about surveillance and control. Meta wants to know who you are, where you are, what you buy, what you download, who you associate with and what your politics are.
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If Meta succeeds in putting all this on your computer at the operating system level, then what is the point of even having a VPN anymore? Also Meta will sell this information to anyone who asks for it.
Meta management are evil but kind of clueless. I would guess the usual suspects including Palantir are whispering in their ears.
Meta is pushing this because their platforms are overrun by bots. Ironically because partly of the AI tools they have created. And advertisers have caught up and aren’t willing to pay top dollars anymore on Meta’s platforms. Hence why Meta desperately wants a way to proof that their traffic comes from real people.
They also benefit from it as it impacts OS providers like Apple and Google. These companies need to contend with privacy flaws and supporting them on their devices, spending resources on that, while Meta just uses the OS API to “verify” user age pretending they care about children. Profit.
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I disagree with all of you. Now that our benevolent theocratic autocratic overlords have decided to track everything we say and do and escape is impossible, I completely support their brave new dystopian agenda. All hail the wonderful leaders!
I see there was no need for “/s” because you are absolutely serious and genuine. A fine example, comrade. Fine example.
Disgusting. This is my representative, I unfortunately voted him in.
Our president is a pedophile and we still get the “for the children” bullshit. How about making a law requiring tracking the data on the Epstein class phones instead?
I sent a letter to him, hopefully enough people do.
Lately, it seems like bottles of incendiary liquid are the vogue medium of communication, rather than sternly-worded letters. I think it’s like toggling that “flag as urgent” setting on an email.
I mean… it’s just been introduced
And according to this site it has a 1% chance of being enacted? What’s that about?
this is insane, but i don’t quite understand how will it be pushed on independent linux distros.
even if it’ll be magically pushed into linux kernel, mfs will just create a fork without that shit… no?
They’ll probably just ban Linux and BSD on the desktop and force Windows and macOS. If NK can force Red Star, then the Fourth Reich can force their approved OS.
Yeah, just make it a felony to use a non-standard OS.
“You installed Linux? What kind of criminal weirdo are you? What are you hiding? You must be a pedo!”
Because we care so much about those…
glad that i read physical books and write to physical notebooks. moving to cave next week.
Where you can read and write physical walls! Alright, Rocko!!
It’s always about “protecting the children” isn’t it?
In Europe it’s been about “protecting democracy”.
All those chickenshit coward “reps” need to be tarred and feathered.
more laws from people who have no idea about anything. let’s say for a sec this isn’t even for mass surveillance (which it is) does verifying your age prevent you from actually being addicted to social medias? it’s the same experience no matter what…this whole thing just shifts onus of social media addiction from big tech companies to us. i implore everyone reading who’s in america to please contact your local representatives.
http://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative
I use 9, so this won’t affect me.
But I’m more than willing to start smashing kneecaps if it comes to it.
I misread this as “I am 9”.
And I thought, “well, I’ve got bad news for you, pal”.
Oddly enough, I am 9.
Initial rollout: Sir, every device on earth is controlled by someone at least 21 years old on xxxx-01-01 !
Enjoy your free speech while you still have it because this is a clear attempt to erase that right.
Given that we’re on a global community, how will this erase my right to free speech here in Europe?
Or were you, like so many, just assuming everybody online lives in your country, so why bother mentioning what country you’re talking about in your title or description?
Because the EU is also trying to get it’s own age verification AND they can and have been influenced by policies from the USA as well as manipulated by the same corporations and billionaires that are getting these laws passed not only in USA states but also in other countries as well. This threat was already beyond the borders of the USA and everyone needs to take it’s threat very seriously
Do you honestly believe we are insulated from this in Europe? Have you not been following the madness that is ChatControl? Have you read this report https://www.investigate-europe.eu/posts/big-tech-data-centres-secrecy-eu-law-environment-footprint
