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.
this post was submitted on 15 Apr 2026
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I can just stop being online. I show my library card when I need to renew my stateID
I’m so happy that I’m an elder millennial that grew up before internet. I’m 100% okay not using the internet.
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Totally unenforceable. You going to prevent people from downloading open-source, noncompliant Linux from Asia or Europe? Good luck.
Hopefully it works out where it just Kodak-Nokia's the entire Microsoft share of the digital economy rather than gradually enforcing government ID checks for all future PC sales.
They can certainly try. I don't put it past them to create a great firewall. I don't envy whoever has to maintain those blacklists though.
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You going to prevent people from downloading open-source, noncompliant Linux from Asia or Europe?
That's the real plan, I suspect.
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Would this bill ban the use of all operating systems released before it became law? That seems unlikely.
So then how about OSs released before it became law, with patches released afterwards? That also seems unlikely.
So then how about my computer's current OS, which is a heavily patched version of a little hobby OS called Linux, originally released in 1991?
you’ll simply not be allowed online with the device.
"But that's unenforceable", some will claim.
And to that, let me remind us all of a little-known concept called cryptographic attestation. If that doesn't ring any bells, then the term "secure boot" should.
Once this shit passes into law, that's the next step. Operating system vendors have their private keys to sign attestation tokens saying "John Johnson is an adult" and you're only getting one if you verify your government ID. When you go to a website, your browser sends your signed token to the website and then the website checks if it's a valid token signed by Microsoft, Apple, or Google.
But Linux?, you may be wondering. No. No Linux. Kiss it good-bye. Your bank will "require" identity attestation for "extra security", and your bank doesn't give a fuck about Linux. Your bank will check against whatever list of public keys they want to trust, and it ain't going to include anything not backed by a global megacorporation.
It's already the case that banks don't allow their apps to be used on rooted phones. I can imagine a similar possibility for desktop computers. A dreadful possibility, but a possibility nonetheless.
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What are these politicians going to do when they achieve perfect age verification?
Well then they'll know where all the children are.....so they can go find and rape them.
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Gather lots and lots of data on its users.
I left the US in the year 2000 and it's gone downhill since then.
Has to be more than just coincidence.
it's regulatory capture