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.
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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.
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 mean… it’s just been introduced
And according to this site it has a 1% chance of being enacted? What’s that about?
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.
maybe for you…but not for me.
I’ll switch back to a dumb phone and run a Linux distro so obscure nobody’s seen it for 25 years.
fuck em. I’ll never comply with this shit.
It’s always about “protecting the children” isn’t it?
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.
All those chickenshit coward “reps” need to be tarred and feathered.
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!!
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
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.
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 !
It’s gonna take a revolution to stop that bill from happening. Seriously!
or just some google and apple lobby
I can’t imagine that it survives a court challenge, though.
What?
Sorry for this stupid question, for a non American like myself. What does this mean for you?
It means my devices are owned by the state should this pass, and the First Amendment will be rendered null and void so goodbye free speech and free expression.
That’s the real question: is coding protected speech?
Tornado cash started this. A fucking github repo was criminalized for just being code that wasn’t executed. This is what happens from not fighting that.
If we can criminalize code or legislate what code is allowed and what code isn’t, than computer code is not protected speech. And that’s a horrible situation.
There was precedent a while back for code being protected speech, but recent laws in certain states attacking 3D printing and now this law are trying to reverse that.
This coming up not a fortnight after his floundering interview with The Bulwark is some Curb Your Enthusiasm level comedy, there’s not even really an “at best” to look for in American politics, a handful of progressive anomalies that came about after MONTHS of tireless campaigning that we can only pray result in a trend toward some kind of wave but that’s it, pay the right Democrat just enough money and they’ll be dancing like a GOP worm.
