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The Ageless Device: Cheap gadgets for violating the California Digital Age Assurance Act
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By the way, the current age verification madness is a coordinated lobbying campaign by Meta
Source?
https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings
One more reason for me to fucking hate Zuckerberg.
Add it to the pile at this point...
Zuckerberg and Thiel.
To avoid any responsibility for them not moderating.
It's more about ad revenue. Advertisers don't want to pay for bots to read their ads.
Ads were always a terrible way to fund the internet.
Not to rant, but some things are so cheap or so important (or both) that it's foolish not to operate off an endowment system. The internet, journalism, science -- the information foundation of the modern world has to be independent for a stable society. Like, yeah, capitalism bad and establishing an initial investment is asking a lot of people's finances, but surely operating independently is worth it?
Because a bot can’t report an age?
We're talking the goal. Actually implementing it successfully is another matter entirely.
You need to be thinking beyond just this law. Once you make it mandatory for all sites to use age verification, you then pass other laws to patch the holes in the system. Look at the DMCA. They made it a felony to bypass copyright restriction technology. They could write a law making it a felony to bypass age verification tools, even if you yourself are over 18. Just like it's currently a felony to use technology to bypass copyright protection tools, even for media that you've legally purchased.
I agree. This is a slippery slope. We need to assassinate each person pushing this law, and everyone who votes for it.
Obvious fed is obvious.
See, talking about solutions just get shut down by people who don’t actually want solutions. If you think protesting and calling your bought-and-paid-for senator is ever going to change the world, you’re going to be very sad.
Well where's your truck bomb, tough guy?
Truck bomb is a terrible choice lmfao. You want to kill innocent people? Yikes.
that sounds like maga simp talk
The OS level age verification is being pushed by Meta to avoid having to take responsibility for moderation.
Where have you been?
that's just a distraction maga
Yes, you’re a maga distraction lol glad we agree
👉👈 so are we supposed to kiss now or
Have the day you voted for, trumpet
you are reading the totally wrong thing into this, i'm just making fun of you dude.
not everyone who disagrees with you on every point is maga. try remembering the art of conversation
Stop.
nooooooooo it's fun
edit: can someone get this gif to say MECHA KAMALA for me that would be so funny
Sounds like a Trump voter. 🤷♂️
Unfortunately, this comment thread is on top of the post, so newcomers might assume you're doing it unironically before getting to the rest of the comments.
yeah i don't care. y'all are believing the one day old account calling everyone that disagrees with her maga rather than the dude who's been here years?
Please elaborate.
org has been going around calling everything maga. i am doing what is called the trolling.
Or Zuckerberg is the ones forking the resources to comply with the wishes of the WEF and other chosen oligarchs whose God promised them OS verification thousands of years ago