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.
So, like, my internet-connected lightbulbs would have to verify my age, too?
I already sent an email to my state senator, but I might need to give them a call. Not that it will do much.
“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.
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.
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,
- Smart fridges
- robot vacuums/lawn mowers
- some lightbulbs
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.
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.
Smart lightbulbs asking if im a minor
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.
I don’t think meshtastic will scale that well
It can.
Reticulum also exists now too, and supports the same hardware
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’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.
it’s not just…EMDASH…it’s…
I’m tired boss
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. >:[
Make sure to leave some in the woods for future generations!
“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.”
What about Back Door Sluts 9?
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.
We’re going back to usenet
We’re not tho. The pedophiles own the means of communication.
Yeah, no. Get turbo-fucked.
No, yeah. Get fucked turbo.
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.
I won’t argue if people want to push back against Colorado/California laws. Personally, I think attestation is okay. I think Meta is trying to get out of paying fines for children, but overall it’s not a bad idea in my book to label the account as a child’s account. That’s my opinion though.
New York’s I will fight vehemently against, and I’m ready to start donating to those who are there fighting it. Fuck needing an ID to use a computer. Absolutely un-American and anti-free speech from it’s core.
I’m fine if companies want to set up the ability to create child accounts. I should not be legally required to disclose private information to exist online. There is already a disgusting amount of surveillance and theft of private information that happens, and we should be doing more to protect everyone’s personal data. Instead we are giving bad actors more tools to gather that data.
That’s basically the difference, and it’s an important difference. CA/CO only require attestation. As an adult, you have the ability to create a child’s account, which is a simple flag which can be used by browsers to say that this account is under aged. The adult is attesting that it is a child. They can make it anything.
NY is a whole different thing. They are requiring verification, as in the OS must check ID, facial scan, something against a third party to let you use your own computer, which then will set the boolean flag. Of course, most 3rd party online checkers will keep all info about you, so you basically lost all privacy right there.
It is still requiring my OS to push an identifying flag to literally anyone that asks. I want to give less info, not more. I already think that the digital landscape overshares data. The more data can be requested, the simpler it is to digitally fingerprint. So I still do not want it to be part of my OS.
If the individual app/program/website wants to ask for age during account setup, that’s fine since there is the expectation of some data sharing to create am account. It should not be part of my device/OS.
i recognize deephumor.
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?
