If you want to make a point…present a real source not a vague hint to google.
What is the issue? Do you mean NPC predators in games? Probably should be 18+ rated then…

If you mean multiplayer…no age bucket check will prevent predators on the servers…

There is such thing as parental responsibility, if someone just lets their child consume higher rated media online without any discurse its a parental failure.

What is next? Does the blueray player need to verify with photoID that everyone in the room is older than the movies rating?

There are laws that make cism illegal in pretty every country. And most countries and companies are pretty quick with takedown requests. So why do we need age verification? CISM is illegal for everyone

Now for other stuff that is legally age gated in one country, but it is hosted in another country which has another legal age limit. Which one counts now?

Does the lawmakers have the reverse law in place, that when a page requests the age bucket, even if there is no legal requirement, does the pagebget fined as well? Otherwise it just leads again to the “cookie banner issue”.

That is a completely different premise. A) putting “Catholic church” and “protect children” in the same sentence is already a bold move B) if I place my child in the boy scouts I do have some expectations on them to protect the child, correct. But that’s not the all or nothing situation you mentioned in your example

My point is the same as with DNS Blocking: It is proposed under the umbrella of “think about the kids”, but it doesn’t work for what they propose it and it is a first step in creating the base of a censorship infrastructure. The govements (and by that I mean all of them not just the US) should hold the platform’s accountable for shit they mess up now and don’t accept “Sorry we can’t do that at scale” as an answer. Google and meta should act much harder on reports by the community. interestingly, they CAN act fast and hard for copyright stuff or other things which would reduce their earnings. As long as the governments won’t act based on existing measures, I can’t take any new ones serious

No, absoluetly not. Because the whole thing is notnto protect the children, but to gather more data.

That’s the false premise…if we just buy the one which isn’t enshittified to hell, there’s less and less options for “enthusiasts” and secondly, most users are fucked, because they just need something that works.

The only way to prevent keep the devices open is via regulatory oversight, forcing politicians to see the relevance of open platform / devices and create rules accordingly. And even that is a massive uphill battle…

I’m running endevourOS with KDM and there are some major issues with bluetooth…I can’t get some devices to connect (e.g my keychrone Keyboard, and Cricut plotter)

I still have to disable my wireless mouse, when I hibernate, because I couldn’t be bothered to adapt the udev rules to disallow the mouse to trigger the pc to start

And finaly, I just got back into X4 Foundation and my HOTAS setup depends on which device is recognized first…either its correct, or the controls are swapped (stuff that should be on the joystick is on the thrustmaster and vice versa)…un- and replugging in the correct order fixes this, but one wod think that it would lock the controls to a fixed device identifier