Motherfuckers want this so they can more easily find kiddies to groom and rape.
Start selling the narrative folks, this is not gonna be a clean war
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Parents ALREADY decided. They decided they didn't give enough of a shit to use the parental controls already available to them. No legitimate reason to push this shit on everyone else.
These companies made parental controls abysmal to use, so they can count children's traffic as adult viewers for ad revenue(on both sides of the bill).
Obligatory: the Democrats are not here to save you.
Fascism with a smug smile instead of a sneer.
maybe for you...but not for me.
I'll switch back to a dumb phone and run a Linux distro so obscure nobody's seen it for 25 years.
fuck em. I'll never comply with this shit.
Step 1: make some kind of surveillance & control system that is voluntary
Step 2: make life for those who dont want it less convenient (you are here)
Step 3: make non-participation in the system be in itself suspicious and a cause for further investigation
I don't deny that roadmap, but there is nothing I can do to stop this.
we can try all we want, but it still won't stop them from moving the goal and trying again.
I'm tired of trying to convince people the worst is yet to come. all I can do is help myself and protect my family.
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This bill is being pushed by Meta and they are NOT going to stop with age verification. It is not about "protecting children" and it never has been. It's always been about surveillance and control. Meta wants to know who you are, where you are, what you buy, what you download, who you associate with and what your politics are.
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If Meta succeeds in putting all this on your computer at the operating system level, then what is the point of even having a VPN anymore? Also Meta will sell this information to anyone who asks for it.
Meta management are evil but kind of clueless. I would guess the usual suspects including Palantir are whispering in their ears.
Meta is pushing this because their platforms are overrun by bots. Ironically because partly of the AI tools they have created. And advertisers have caught up and aren’t willing to pay top dollars anymore on Meta’s platforms. Hence why Meta desperately wants a way to proof that their traffic comes from real people.
They also benefit from it as it impacts OS providers like Apple and Google. These companies need to contend with privacy flaws and supporting them on their devices, spending resources on that, while Meta just uses the OS API to "verify" user age pretending they care about children. Profit.
I disagree with all of you. Now that our benevolent theocratic autocratic overlords have decided to track everything we say and do and escape is impossible, I completely support their brave new dystopian agenda. All hail the wonderful leaders!
I see there was no need for "/s" because you are absolutely serious and genuine. A fine example, comrade. Fine example.
God's grace, the supreme leader!
Disgusting. This is my representative, I unfortunately voted him in.
Our president is a pedophile and we still get the "for the children" bullshit. How about making a law requiring tracking the data on the Epstein class phones instead?
I sent a letter to him, hopefully enough people do.
Lately, it seems like bottles of incendiary liquid are the vogue medium of communication, rather than sternly-worded letters. I think it's like toggling that "flag as urgent" setting on an email.
this is insane, but i don't quite understand how will it be pushed on independent linux distros.
even if it'll be magically pushed into linux kernel, mfs will just create a fork without that shit... no?
They'll probably just ban Linux and BSD on the desktop and force Windows and macOS. If NK can force Red Star, then the Fourth Reich can force their approved OS.
Yeah, just make it a felony to use a non-standard OS.
"You installed Linux? What kind of criminal weirdo are you? What are you hiding? You must be a pedo!"
Because we care so much about those...
glad that i read physical books and write to physical notebooks. moving to cave next week.
Where you can read and write physical walls! Alright, Rocko!!
All those chickenshit coward "reps" need to be tarred and feathered.
more laws from people who have no idea about anything. let’s say for a sec this isn’t even for mass surveillance (which it is) does verifying your age prevent you from actually being addicted to social medias? it’s the same experience no matter what…this whole thing just shifts onus of social media addiction from big tech companies to us. i implore everyone reading who’s in america to please contact your local representatives.
http://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative
I mean... it's just been introduced
And according to this site it has a 1% chance of being enacted? What's that about?
Initial rollout: Sir, every device on earth is controlled by someone at least 21 years old on xxxx-01-01 !
I use 9, so this won't affect me.
But I'm more than willing to start smashing kneecaps if it comes to it.
I misread this as "I am 9".
And I thought, "well, I've got bad news for you, pal".
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It’s always about “protecting the children” isn’t it?
In Europe it's been about "protecting democracy".
If this thread is any indication, we’re cooked. If this many people are willing to give the government the benefit of the doubt, after what we’re dealing with…
This will not be benign, it will seem innocent at first, but we’ll have given up yet another seemingly simple thing that will eventually be used against us.
evidently Palantir wasn't able to use all available data and a few glaciers to find out who was saying mean things about Important People With Money. This oughta fill in those gaps.
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