There's NOTHING Safer than having the Epstein Class KNOW where Kids are and WHEN they're Home Alone!
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There's NOTHING Safer than having the Epstein Class KNOW where Kids are and WHEN they're Home Alone!
-US Politicians!
Remember folks, age verification is personal identity verification.
💯 don’t call it age verification - that’s just what the unmasked scooby-doo villain is still hiding behind.
Well they could do it the right way where, for example, you go to your city hall to get a certificate of age where they check your ID. Then some cryptography happens so you only enter a public key from that certificate on a website or OS to verify your age.
The website or OS doesn’t check your ID. City hall doesn’t know your browsing history.
But I’m not fooling myself, that’s not the point of such a law.
no implementation of personal ID for internet access will ever be "correct."
"Key questions remain unanswered, such as the definition of “operating system provider,” the type of verification required, the focus on major commercial platforms, and the potential scope beyond them."
I guarantee this bill is unenforceable. Cars, phones, traffic lights all have have computers with operating systems. All modern tech has an operating system of some sort. Also how do you even verify age? If my laptop is offline can I just not use it because it can't confirm my id? What about tech that never goes online but has an OS, like a calculator? I can't believe microsoft and apple are not lobbying against this. Who becomes liable if an "underage" person is accidentally given access or if access is denied to an "of age" person. I can just imagine an emt frantically looking for their driver's license so they can use the computerized defibrillator.
Microsoft is probably salivating at the idea of being the only legal OS provider.
Microsoft and Apple. The internet will only allow OSs from large American corporations.
I'd like to see the rest of the world say "fuck it" and carry on as before, leaving the Americans to censor themselves. But governments around the world are suddenly rushing to implement very similar terrible laws. It smells very coordinated.
Meta is funding a lot of the lobbyists pushing for age verification laws. Uncoincidentally, Meta both owns a stake in a company providing identity verification as a service, and serves to benefit from not having to moderate its own platforms.
It feels like a Mr. Smith Goes to Washington display would solve this.
Just bring everything that has an operating system in it into the room. Cars, boats, planes, construction equipment, tractors, factories, knock off game consoles, literally every server on the internet.
Show them the ridiculousness of this and maybe we’ll get dragged out by police and charged with contempt of congress
Don't give them even better ideas. To you it sounds ridiculous, to them it sounds like "we can ban people we don't like from using modern technology by invalidating their age verification"
Offline computing?!

But

Rules being implemented and enforced by actual pedophiles
They cant even define an OS. Do i need a fucking login for my wifi fridge and toaster. Such a stupid ffucking law.
Okay, what is this bill actually saying?
That soon, you won't even be able to own most computers without registering it under a government ID?
Because that's fucking nuts.
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Palantir really wants it's fucking database.
All because Petey truly believes that there are demons living in the United States.
there are demons living in the USA. all Petey has to do to find the closest one... is look in a mirror.
Everyone in this comment section, you're just gonna take this? Its been time, but if this is what motivates you to throw bricks at politicians then lets go
I'm having a hard time understanding how this is going to keep kids safe.
That's because it is never about the children.
palintir, meta, google are all behind it. it serves 2 purposes; silencing dissidents and TRACKING women/potential mothers as brood mares.
Don’t want to compete with a potentially capable Linux? Pay the government to make it illegal!
Now do you see why I don't trust government?
Because it does things like this. And it's not just our US government doing it. The entire world is getting more and more authoritarian.
Government seeks power. Always. Which is why it must always be restrained.
In the future, you'll be sentenced to 10 years hard labour for a contraband OS while children are raped openly at lavish parties.
unrelated but I just want to say theres like 4 separate comments using the word "TrumpID" to describe this age verification, and i think this would be a great way to mock it just like how conservatives called the aca "ObamaCare"
Except it's more ZuckID, since Meta was behind the "grassroots" campaigns and wrote the script "representatives" are using globally.
well neither did Obama personally write the affordable care act, but here we are
You misunderstand, TrumpID is the company that will soon be created that will be the mandatory provider for all OS to use (and pay licence fees to).
Ugh, this is so disgusting! They desperately want control over things they should never have! I've shared my opinion will all three of my representatives.
The Internet is built upon and requires anonymous participation! This is an attempt to end privacy...
Has Bipartisan support too. The corporations want this, and both of our parties listen to them first and us a distant second. Catering to corporate wants is about the only thing the two parties can agree on. It's probably going to pass, even if I hope it doesn't. Buckle up my friends...
Since all TV’s are smart TV’s with an OS this means age verification to watch TV? I think that’s a message that will resonate with the average consumer on what is wrong with this bill
I’m so sick of this depraved pedophile oligarch Mossad shit
Fuck everything's my about this.
I can just stop being online. I show my library card when I need to renew my stateID
If the fascists get much further, possessing a library card will disqualify you from voting.
Finally, torrenting Linux distros becomes a thing, rather than a curiosity
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