I like having my identity stolen
this post was submitted on 15 Apr 2026
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They cant even define an OS. Do i need a fucking login for my wifi fridge and toaster. Such a stupid ffucking law.
Like everything on shodan basically? FFS
Why does a fridge need to connect to the Internet? Or a toaster? Why does my toothbrush need Bluetooth?
OK, how about my surveillance cam? NAS appliance? My WiFi light controller? Network switch? They all run Linux.
Well now you have to provide ID to use any of those.
This is just another form of control and a potential verified data stream for governments/corporations/marketers.
How can you prove that internet traffic is a human and not a bot? ID verification.
How can you generate more user data? Force them to provide ID for every device that is connected.
Want to control piracy? Easy with OS level ID requirements.
No no, tell me more about the smart toaster actually...
Can it warm up a jelly donut and play Maroon 5? lol
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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.
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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
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"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.
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Offline computing?!
But
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"
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Don’t want to compete with a potentially capable Linux? Pay the government to make it illegal!
There's already being work done to add an optional age-attestation in systemd.
And note that none of the laws proposed so far are actually verifying age, they're only requiring someone to enter it. That's attestation, not verification. Verification will be the next tightening of the screw.
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Fuck everything's my about this.
I'm having a hard time understanding how this is going to keep kids safe.
That's because it is never about the children.
The same way the next laws will keep kids safe. When you leave your front door, you will have to drop your pants so the TSA can check your asshole. It's necessary. You know. To keep kids safe.
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This is about protecting the entrenched players in the OS games; Microsoft, Google and Apple. The likely end play for all this is the erosion of personal computing so they can rent (and therefore control) all the compute available to you, so you don’t get uppity and think of running your own AI, which they believe will be as integral to everyday life as the internet is today.
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Primary Josh Gottheimer. Write in anyone else against him. Vote against him or withhold voting at all in the general.
Do not signal that this is tolerated.
Please explain who this is! At the federal or state level? I don't know enough
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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
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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.
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