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Government should be so powerless as to be unattractive targets for corporate influence.
Name checks out.
I smile at that delicious irony every time I see it.
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There is no other technology to do age verification at scale. Apple, Google and such will contract out this age verification to a third-party which will ask you to upload your ID and a 3D face captcha, which the third party will delete within 15 days, but somehow magically still make it into an unfortunate, unavoidable data leak a couple of years later.
I think you are assuming what their definition of "verify" is going to be, but it's not actually written in the text of the bill, so we don't know. Similar laws in some states only asked the OS to collect the age, it specifically doesn't say that the information must ever be accurate, stored or used for anything.
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Name checks out.
Wait until you find out that I paid my state money I didn’t have to pay (a custom license plate) just so I could put an anti-government message on it. I smile at that delicious irony every time I see it.
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What for? I use family link for my kids devices. It works good enough. Everything else seems way too intrusive. Apple is horrible in this regard. Their solutions never really work. A joint venture for an (optional) cross-platform family app would be more than enough. This, plus a (voluntary) content rating that's offered via an API (could even be simple meta data on a webpage). Done.
Nice. How does pornhub.com "verify" your age when accessing it from your family computer's Ububtu account "my kids account"? Oh, there is no config to retrieve, no We API to speak to. "I'm 18 or older"-button it is. Is that a workable solution?
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Microsoft just force-updated my operating system (despite declining every option and prompt) and the first thing I noticed working differently was it offering, in an OS popup, to "connect" the computer to "Facebook". These people have root access to all our webcams. I don't think we can tolerate these entities to continue to exist.
What can we do about it? The major tech firms have nearly all the power here, including quite obviously full capture of government (not just here but other countries as well).
On theirs: "Just for the sake of making the numbers work, have you tried putting in 'kill all the poor'?". https://youtu.be/s_4J4uor3JE
I am increasingly coming to recognize proceduralist liberalism as a suicide pact.
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Wait until you find out that I paid my state money I didn’t have to pay (a custom license plate) just so I could put an anti-government message on it. I smile at that delicious irony every time I see it.
You rapscallion. You actual rogue.
* Apple just autocorrected “knave” to “Kanye” when I typed it.
So, who's gearing up to sue the FTC for a declaratory judgment that this is unconstitutional?
Is that an option? Tell me more. Yes, I am looking to sue to stop this insanity. If you're a lawyer reading this, please reach out.
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> how are we in 2026 and phones dont have guest mode or "i handed it to my kid mode" They do. Android have had multi-user and guest profiles since Android 5. The only reason I really know this is because I heard how Google completely bungled it in Android 14 on Pixel devices[1] :D [1]: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/10/android-14s-ransomwa...
While age gate attempts are comically stupid, an adult giving a kid a device purpose built for addictive behavior should absolutely be as illegal as giving them alcohol or cigarettes. I really hope Apple and Google are not stupid enough to further enable this.
Same applies to guided access and a facetime call. I dont want them to switch apps or hang up the call, the phone gets locked down.
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. Making it slightly harder to access the internet fixes nothing. What if instead of having the largest prison population in the world our government supported communities that make raising good children possible? Our society needs to lose this urge to diagnose e…
IF it were for the kids - but I don't think it is. > Making it slightly harder to access the internet fixes nothing. This assumes it is about the children. But if you do not think so then it opens up new alternatives suddenly, be it from tracking people, to targeted ads or any other information that could be gathered and eventually either monetized or put in tandem with other information. We'd get age graphs that way…
Exactly. If it was about kids, then you do not direct legislation towards everybody, but at parents. Give parents the software and tools (parental control settings) to restrict their child from searching certain terms and accessing certain sites. Bob or Susan (middle age adults), down the street, should have nothing to do with that.
It's about outright surveillance, tracking, censorship, control, and politicians putting money in their pocket. "Kids" is just a cover for their intentions and dirt. More has to be done to call out the deception.