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> Is anyone else as stunned as I am by how many posters on tech websites have suddenly gone full anti-free-internet and embracing the police state? I suspect it's because people of…

> Anyone in tech and tech-adjacent industries knows the difference and that we shouldn't be calling LLMs AI. Are we reading the same Hacker News comments sections?

I think that's a silly argument, but even if we accept it at face value 1) VPN usage is difficult to detect and 2) bad actors are still going to use VPNs. This line of thinking rem…

The majority of comments seem to think this is not a big deal. Not surprising from this crowd, but disconcerting nonetheless.

Where does this line of thinking end? What couldn't be construed as part of the software?

"Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders."

It's just a domain name. The Onion taking it over does virtually nothing to impact Alex Jone's reach.

Not to mention Alex Jones is still up and running elsewhere spreading his nonsense and hawking his merch. So it's a cute gag, I guess, and gets the Sandy Hook families some money, …

> “The goal for the families we represent has always been to prevent Alex Jones from being able to cause harm at scale, the way he did against them,” said Chris Mattei, the lawyer …

Maybe it's just me but I don't see much humor in this. His brand and assets may have been liquidated, but he's still doing his show and it remains popular. The only people who real…

You should look into what's actually happening in other countries before blaming it on "the U.S. nanny state". The rest of the Anglosphere makes the United States look like a Liber…

No. There are significant numbers of real people who genuinely support this type of thing. Dismissing it as "bots" or a "false narrative" leads to complacency that allows this stuf…

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The problem is that this is too tedious for most people. There's a reason centralization is popular.

I meant that it's not a solution for users looking to avoid similar intrusions. When alternative platforms get big enough they'll be faced with the same legislative burdens. Of cou…

The frustration aimed at Discord et al is largely misplaced. I'm sure these companies don't mind gathering extra data about their users, but the primary impetus for age verificatio…

Neither does the average politician, so where exactly is the impetus for changing the law going to come from?

I'm not sure there'd be much of a difference because the British people are broadly speaking a rather paternalistic society.

While I agree with this in spirit, here in the UK both major parties along with the public at large generally support these types of laws.

> The idea that AI is anything less than paradigm shifting, or even revolutionary is weird to me. Actual AI? Sure. The LLM slop we currently refer to as AI? lol, lmao even

> Office products are bastardized with copilot buttons everywhere. They put copilot in notepad. NOTEPAD.

Unfortunately they went along with it initially but at least they came to their senses in the end: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardFilters/issues/216586

The justification is money. Microsoft doesn't make any money off of offline accounts.

I think it's rather that OSA actually visibly affects people in their day-to-day lives whereas other laws don't. I constantly hit age verification pages on Reddit and Twitter and I…

That's a fair point, but you have to take into consideration the relevant laws and countries. You also need to take into consideration what it means to "operate" in a country.