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.
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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’m pretty sure that’s part of the point. Kill third party and DIY hardwares and softwares. Even if you could develope alternative tech you can’t monetize it because it wouldn’t meet regulation. The only option becomes hardware as a service, which you validate your age with the host and your pi just becomes virtualized hardware if it exists at all.
It’s not just about survaliance. It’s about crushing self-educators and putting the working class in a digital environment that is one way and has no exits.
They’re revolutionizing the internet and technology so you can only access what they want and how they want.
Big tech is using very sophisticated methods to lock us out.
I assume they’d probably just say you gotta either have a way to load it on-device (e.g. pre-record a video of your face and a photo of your ID, put on USB drive, plug into Pi), or have a way to wirelessly do so from another device, as long as the device you’re verifying is able to connect to the internet, since otherwise age verification wouldn’t really matter in the first place.
Don’t worry, they’ll find a way to make you give up your personal data no matter what!
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.
This. And with the mumblings of autonomous AI kill bots it would be next to nothing in a decade or so for them to detect non-compliant networked devices. Everything already tries to map your network. Imagine you have a degoogled phone and some robocop detects it and arrests you because you have a suspicious device.
The autonomous robot thing freaks me the fuck out. Imagine a cop that could access your phone and listen to your conversations, track you in real time and never get tired. If that happens it’s game over. It’s not happening this year, but in 5 years? With how much money they are dumping into the industry?
They don’t care if the country collapses. They’re designing the next one.
“Sir, do you have any Raspberry Pi’s in the vehicle?”
Well they can try to do that but it won’t work. I already have at least 4 Raspberry Pis, and who knows how many other computers could be lurking around.
They’ll just end up like any other form of draconian prohibition - black markets everywhere. Even my grandpa knew a bootlegger in small town USA where alcohol was illegal.
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,
Hold the lightbulb up to your face to verify your age please
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.