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I would rather them write a bill that says all kids are provided lunches at schools ("free lunch" if you will). I believe that would help kids out much more than this shit bill would.
Feed, cloth and educate our population? What's next? Structure society in a way that benefits the people? How horrifying!
Well I'm going to keep using GrapheneOS and whatever version(s) of Linux refuse to comply. Makes me even more glad that I've already transitioned off Windows.
Just make your OS say you are 99. This is all fine until they put some Id verification in. Then anything open is cooked.
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I got a house with a 25-year roof, an indestructible Japanese shitbox car I can repair myself from scrap if I have to, and enough in the bank at three to five percent to pay my taxes, all of my hobbies, eating steak every day if I wanted and my share of the universal multi-payer health care system in my country. That puts me for the rest of my life at a level of fuck you. And if the system breaks down, I’m just going…
Breathtaking entitlement, self-righteousness, and arrogance. Arrogance is usually a defense mechanism that you can't fix with logic... people use it to shield themselves from their own insecurities so they don't feel inadequate or threatened. If you can't see your own flaws, you can't understand why others don't like your behavior. "As a rule, strong feelings about issues do not emerge from deep understanding."
Oh stop it. You’re breathtaking!
- And For Other Purposes.
am i the only one seeing that?
i see a lot of discussion pro and con age verification, there should be much more concern about the purpose of that phrase for other puposes.
is some one actually trying to sneak a catch all like that into it, or is it a bargaining chip. [see we removed "for other purposes", its all better, now we can pass it]
Based on the few snippets quoted in the article, I think as written this bill gets closer to a good, privacy-preserving, non-authoritarian version of "age verification" than any of the attempts so far. What it seems to be aiming for is essentially mandatory parental controls at the OS level. No ID checking or government/third party involvement, it just uses whatever age the parents enter when they set up the device/u…
https://www.congress.gov/119/bills/hr8250/BILLS-119hr8250ih....
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/8250...
It's short and in plain language. The article is longer than the bill. Here's the totality of the requirements:
(a) REQUIREMENTS.—An operating system provider, with respect to any operating system of such provider, shall carry out the following:
(1) Require any user of the operating system to provide the date of birth of the user in order to—
(A) set up an account on the operating system; and
(B) use the operating system.
(2) If the relevant user of the operating system is under 18 years of age, require a parent or legal guardian of the user to verify the date of birth of the user.
(3) Develop a system to allow an app developer to access any information as is necessary, collected by the operating system to carry out this section and any regulation promulgated under this section, to verify the date of birth of a user of an app of the app developer.
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This part from REGULATIONS is also nominally important:
(B) Data protection standards related to how an operating system provider shall ensure date of birth collected by the operating system provider from a user, or the parent or legal guardian of the user, to carry out this section and any regulation promulgated under this secion—
(i) is collected in a secure manner to maintain the privacy of the user or the arent or legal guardian of the user; and
(ii) is not stolen or breached.
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> Politicians will do any draconian measure to help kids except try and improve the lives of their parents so that they can actually dedicate time to parenting. Because in their eyes your children are not your children. You are simply a custodian of their future work force asset. If you educate your children too much into individualism, they (today’s politicians) may see a diminished return of whatever they want to a…
Translation: government is the problem not the solution.
those even worse things have tried very, very hard to obstruct, slow, impede, and ruin government trust so they can enforce their monopolies.
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Hard disagree. Corporations running the government instead of a nation's people is the problem.
Government should be so powerless as to be unattractive targets for corporate influence.
It's not a solution to anything.
For example of powerless governments - look at literally any war-torn African country and their standard of living.