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I suspect the endgame of this campaign is to have mandatory ID checks for social media. Police would have access to these upon court orders etc and be able to easily prosecute anyone who posts 'harmful' content online.
Followed by governments basically shrugging.
It's interesting how the "features" which many claim IRC is missing turn out to be a huge liability. Adult content is applied via image hosting, video/audio chat, etc. All things IRC lacks.
IRC gives you all the features of a normal client but you've got to create them yourself which itself is a dark-art that's been squandered by today's gimmicky services.
Just because it doesn't have a fancy UI to present the media doesn't mean it can't.
Encode to base64 and post in channel. Decode it back to normal format... IRC is excellent for large amounts of stringed text.
You could even stream the movie in base64 and have a client that captures the data stream and decodes.
The only thing that IRC lacks is a feature to recall conversations where if someone isn't present. But if you're someone who needs that host a bouncer or something.
I personally enjoy entering a blank slate.
I suspect the endgame of this campaign is to have mandatory ID checks for social media. Police would have access to these upon court orders etc and be able to easily prosecute anyone who posts 'harmful' content online.
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ultimately, i think the endgame is to require government ID in order to access internet services in general, a la ender's game.
Many countries (including in the EU) already required ID to use a SIM card: https://forestvpn.com/blog/news/countries-sim-card-registrat... Funnily enough, when the Philippines did this, it was decried as a violation of human rights [1]. But usually, media are so silent on such things I'd call them complicit. One already cannot so much as rent a hotel room anywhere in the EU without showing government ID. [1] https:/…
So, what will be the proper technology to apply here? I have no problem with verification of my age (not the date of birth, just the boolean, >18yo), but I do have a problem with sending any party a picture of my face or my passport.
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ultimately, i think the endgame is to require government ID in order to access internet services in general, a la ender's game.
Please walk me from scratch how you would access the internet on your own right now without any form of Government ID
Is this sort of flow normal elsewhere? It's certainly normal where I live.
> This is the first book to examine the growth and phenomenon of a securitized and criminalized compliance society which relies increasingly on intelligence-led and predictive technologies to control future risks, crimes, and security threats. It articulates the emergence of a ‘compliance-industrial complex’ that synthesizes regulatory capitalism and surveillance capitalism to impose new regimes of power and control, as well as new forms of subjectivity subservient to the ‘operating system’ of a pre-crime society.
https://www.amazon.com/Compliance-Industrial-Complex-Operati...
I know all too well that when you grow up you're psychologically wired to assume that the way the parents treated you is normal, and if they harmed you then you deserve to be hurt. I've made friends with and assisted many teens and young adults in unsafe living situations (and talked to people who grew up in fundamentalist religions and cults), and they're dependent on online support networks to recognize and cope with abuse, get advice, and seek help in dangerous situations.
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No it's just nonsense you invented because you were unwilling to do any research. The actual situation was that the board refused classification where an adult was intentionally pretending to be an underage child not that they looked like one.
I added an edit to correct myself however this was not something I invented. This story goes back to 09 - 2010. I will confess I didn't do any research to confirm though and that was my bad.
And it was believable, given a history of genuine but inept attempts by some to address real societal problems. (As well as given the history of fake attempts to solve problems for political points for "doing something". And also given the history of "won't someone think of the children" disingenuous pretexts often used by others to advance unrelated goals.) Basically, no one is surprised when many governments do something that seems nonsensical.
So, accusing someone of making up a story of a government doing something odd in this space might be hasty.
I suspect better would be to give a quick check and then "I couldn't find a reference to that; do you have a link?"
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ultimately, i think the endgame is to require government ID in order to access internet services in general, a la ender's game.
Please walk me from scratch how you would access the internet on your own right now without any form of Government ID