Here is a link to learn more about the bill.
It is also important to note this legislation also includes language for ongoing, real-time monitoring. Not just verification
Here is a summary from the link shared above:
Requires manufacturers of internet-enabled devices to conduct age assurance to determine a user’s age category and provide all websites, online services, online applications and mobile applications on such user’s internet-enabled device and/or application store manufactured by the covered manufacturer with a digital signal that such user is a covered minor as well as the age category of such covered minor via a real-time application programming interface (API).
I love the inclusion of the API acronym; all super serious sounding. Like these dumb pedophiles even know what an API is!
You are encouraged to have an opinion about this. It is obvious what is happening here.
Do you have the spine to be remembered?
We are at an epic turning point in human history. Those who rise to meet that standard are today’s heroes.
The real world, filled with everyday people, needs individuals who embody a willingness to say “Get fucked!”
If this is your first time learning about heroics, look up information about the “hero’s journey”. Also known as the “monomyth”.
It’s okay to be new. What isn’t okay is to sit on the sidelines in today’s world.
You are alive today. Take full advantage of it.
“What if I rape you?”
“NO!”
“What if I rape you just a little bit?”
“NO!”
“What if I just rape your little toe, then, surely you won’t mind?”
“NO!”
“Ok what if I just rape your little toe nail? Be reasonable!”
“NO!”
“Ok, but what about if I just rape part of your little toe nail? It’s to protect you from pedophiles, after all, surely you don’t want to protect pedophiles are you?”
“I mean…”
“RAPE IT IS!”
Legislators have no idea how technical stuff works. Imagine imposing this requirement on a Raspberry Pi, which has no document scanner or webcam to scan your Government Approved ID or Unique Human Face. Either the device has to be mandated to include a camera or some other similar bullshit, or it doesn’t have a way to scan your face or ID. So it would be noncompliant by default, but if you could mandate a camera is included, then you’d have to mandate that it requires the scan and gatekeeps the operation of the device without it, and so on… just a bunch of ridiculous bullshit.
I mean, even high power desktops don’t generally come WITH those devices.
I imagine this would be implemented for devices that come with that stuff, which already tells you how easy it will be for actual predators and criminals to avoid this shit while everyone else gets fucked.
Good news! They want to move PC to saas!
Technically a raspberry pi does not need to be an internet connected device but also consider,
- Smart fridges
- robot vacuums/lawn mowers
- some lightbulbs
You are still acting under the assumption that we will be allowed purchase our own hardware like a Raspberry Pi, or some stick of RAM to upgrade our desktop PC.
They want us on dumb terminals like in WallE, consuming the content they want us to see, and squashing the inconvenient truths they don’t like.
Does your little Blueberry cake or whatever have Microsoft SecureBoot Copilot Plus? No? It’s ILLEGAL and you can go to JAIL for having it! SURRENDER TO THE AI DRONE NOW.
The real problem is that I’m not being hyperbolic.
So all this is supposed to be part of what lobbies do - provide subject matter input, recommendations, and direction to lawmakers, so that said lawmakers can make better laws. This protects the lobbies’ interests because they aren’t forced to do unreasonable shit just to comply with nonsense laws.
BUT Citizens United happened, and now lobbies are for funneling money to politicians so that they will produce laws that benefit you, as a company/org, and not the general interest.
I use my desktop PC to browse the web and play games so it does not have a camera.
The other day there was a discussion here about just having government id generate a token that can anonymously verify the user’s age. It’s not as privacy friendly as full anonymity, but at least it’s only between you and the government, which you have to trust for a lot of things anyway. And supposedly some countries in Europe are implementing it that way. Why is this not brought up more?
Smart lightbulbs asking if im a minor
My theory is that the pedophiles in charge want a way to verify they are talking to an authenticated minor, too much time wasted talking to Chris Hansen types.
If it ever gets to this point, I have a ton of books to read. I just won’t use a computer anymore. You’ll find me under a tree in a park reading 1984.
We can build our own internet. With meshtastic. And closed networks.
Yeah. And 99.9% of humanity will go on using McInternet, and whatever the fuck we do won’t matter and they’ll still control all of society and its direction.
I don’t think meshtastic will scale that well
It can.
I’ll be that guy who specializes in extremely outdated hardware that doesn’t have this feature.
I’ma be both of you
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This has recently been happening to me! I have been so fed up with the dumb propagandistic bullshit and the fucking algorithm enema of the Internet lately that I’ve been like- FINE. Fuck this, I have a whole library to entertain me.
I’ve read a bunch of books, classics I missed back when reading was a thing, and it’s amazing. It feels like feeding my scurvy ass brain fruits and vegetables after a decade at sea.
I heard it was Meta pushing all this age verification legislation all over the country. And of not, I’m sure it’s some other evil company.
Both Meta and Alphabet are at the helm here. Both companies are co-owned by DARPA folks.
I’ll go back to buying porn in person with cash.
If that’s how it’s gonna be, fuck it, I’ll just get a real girlfriend. >:[
“So just ball bludgeoners 2, heavy breathing from the closet 42, and my little cumshot: friendship with benefits. Will that be all?”
“Toss in a tube of KY and a hemorrhoid cream. Mama’s going cave diving tonight.”
It didn’t feel even remotely normal even when it was normal.
I dunno, I’ve been in plenty of porn and sex shops and the atmosphere was usually reminiscent of a convenience store with sparkles. It’s genuinely not a big deal, unless you begin spontaneously masturbating in the aisle. Paying for porn again, that’s the weird part for me.
Make sure to leave some in the woods for future generations!
We’re going back to usenet
We’re not tho. The pedophiles own the means of communication.
Yep, California and Colorado are honestly not horrible laws. New York’s here is horseshit, and every citizen should be screaming at their senators and representatives extremely loudly about this in New York. If you aren’t, you’re okay with them.
New York’s requires
Covered manufacturer… determined via one or more commercially reasonable age assurance methods…
This is biometric scanning, ID checks, whatever. California’s only requires there exists a way to create a child account, and mark it as “child”. New York’s is MASSIVELY worse. People, call your senators, kill this bill in committee NOW
I’m going to disagree with you there. They are all horrible, unnecessary, intrusive laws specifically designed to enhance the ability to surveil everyone online. These laws can get fucked along with everyone that supports them.
Yeah, no. Get turbo-fucked.
No, yeah. Get fucked turbo.
Where is the link for this?
Explain “pedophiles”.
Post needs text alternative.
Images of text break much that text alternatives do not. Losses due to image of text lacking alternative such as link:
- usability
- we can’t quote the text without pointless bullshit like retyping it or OCR
- text search is unavailable
- the system can’t
- reflow text to varied screen sizes
- vary presentation (size, contrast)
- vary modality (audio, braille)
- accessibility
- lacks semantic structure (tags for titles, heading levels, sections, paragraphs, lists, emphasis, code, links, accessibility features, etc)
- some users can’t read the image due to lack of alt text (markdown image description)
- users can’t adapt the text for dyslexia or vision impairments
- systems can’t read the text to them or send it to braille devices
- web connectivity
- we have to do failure-prone bullshit to find the original source
- we can’t explore wider context of the original message
- authenticity: we don’t know the image hasn’t been tampered
- searchability: the “text” isn’t indexable by search engine in a meaningful way
- fault tolerance: no text fallback if
- image breaks
- image host is geoblocked due to insane regulations.
Contrary to age & humble appearance, text is an advanced technology that provides all these capabilities absent from images.
- usability
