Colorado pushing for age verification on the OS level https://www.pcmag.com/news/colorado-lawmakers-push-for-age-verification-at-the-operating-system-level
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@michael_w_busch @cwebber "SB26-051, introduced last month, would require operating systems to register the owner’s age, which third-party apps can then leverage to determine if the user is an adult. The bill calls for the device owner to register their birthdate or age, but for the purposes of creating an “age bracket,” which can then be shared to an app developer through an API to learn their age range, according to BiometricUpdate.com."
It does say leverage and sharing with app developers.
Here is the proposed bill: https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB26-051 .
Again; their claim is to allow sharing only an age flag rather than everyone's full ID getting leaked.
Which does nothing to resolve the more fundamental problem.
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@FelisCatusDomesticus @neatchee @cwebber Got a source link?
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Here is the proposed bill: https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB26-051 .
Again; their claim is to allow sharing only an age flag rather than everyone's full ID getting leaked.
Which does nothing to resolve the more fundamental problem.
@michael_w_busch @cwebber Even if it only restricts by age being shared and doesn't exploit that, that is STILL a big boon for marketers and still invades privacy of all.
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Colorado pushing for age verification on the OS level https://www.pcmag.com/news/colorado-lawmakers-push-for-age-verification-at-the-operating-system-level
Red alert! If this sounds like bad shit that's because IT IS
There was a time when the whole internet would be rallied against this stuff.....
@cwebber seems to me that this is evil, but a lesser evil than having to prove my age (actually my identity) to every site on the internet (which will then be pawned)
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Colorado pushing for age verification on the OS level https://www.pcmag.com/news/colorado-lawmakers-push-for-age-verification-at-the-operating-system-level
Red alert! If this sounds like bad shit that's because IT IS
There was a time when the whole internet would be rallied against this stuff.....
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@fluffykittycat @gorlak @cwebber indeed, and what about content regarding Wicca, or Islam? Where's the line and who decides it?
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Colorado pushing for age verification on the OS level https://www.pcmag.com/news/colorado-lawmakers-push-for-age-verification-at-the-operating-system-level
Red alert! If this sounds like bad shit that's because IT IS
There was a time when the whole internet would be rallied against this stuff.....
@cwebber Thanks for promoting this. This is in committee next Tuesday, 24 February, and members of the public in CO can sign up to attest (it's SB26-051). It's accepted via in-person, Zoom, or written.
Other notes from the bill: a) This is sponsored by 2 Democrats; b) web-based usage is not included in this, only apps + app stores; c) enterprise apps are exempted; d) the cost for the state to update *its* apps to support this is $250k. 🥴
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@FelisCatusDomesticus @cwebber I didn't have a "trivial mind" at that age
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@FelisCatusDomesticus @cwebber you can't exactly do that individually on a dime like that
yes you can.
social media in it's current form has existed less than 30 years.
humans have existed far longer than that.
viable options exist and have for years now.
there is no technical reason, only individual reasons and social ones and those are completely malleable. Most of my life there was no social media. It didn't exist.
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@fluffykittycat @cwebber better to do that than to let their kids have rights
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@cwebber @FelisCatusDomesticus true, high schoolers are walking out coast to coast so often I see it in the headlines at least every couple of weeks
What's changed is that we all know our "representitives" don't care and won't listen
and that's the same thing your great grandparents said about the politicians of their day vis-a-vis the Vietnam War..
soo.. what's the young generation gonna do?
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@fluffykittycat @cwebber fucking correct. and as it becoems more and more of a common sense thing, parents and people in power scream ever louder at the concept that they might have to start having, not rights, but responsibilities
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Colorado pushing for age verification on the OS level https://www.pcmag.com/news/colorado-lawmakers-push-for-age-verification-at-the-operating-system-level
Red alert! If this sounds like bad shit that's because IT IS
There was a time when the whole internet would be rallied against this stuff.....
@cwebber what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck
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@neatchee @KarlHeinzHasliP @cwebber
this is where parental responsibility comes into the picture.
except in cases of gross incompetence, parents are still in charge of their kids, at least until age 18.
let's not forget all common sense here.
when the parents are as incompetent with tech as the kids, or even more so, then this is a different discussion.
@FelisCatusDomesticus @KarlHeinzHasliP @cwebber it's almost entirely parental responsibility and social influence, that's my point. Kids are kids.
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Colorado pushing for age verification on the OS level https://www.pcmag.com/news/colorado-lawmakers-push-for-age-verification-at-the-operating-system-level
Red alert! If this sounds like bad shit that's because IT IS
There was a time when the whole internet would be rallied against this stuff.....
@cwebber How in the absolute shit are they expecting to enforce such a ridiculous regulation? Or is that not something politicians care about?
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@FelisCatusDomesticus @KarlHeinzHasliP @cwebber it's almost entirely parental responsibility and social influence, that's my point. Kids are kids.
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@FelisCatusDomesticus @KarlHeinzHasliP @cwebber it's almost entirely parental responsibility and social influence, that's my point. Kids are kids.
@neatchee @KarlHeinzHasliP @cwebber
and dumb parents usually produce children who are equally dumb.
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@FelisCatusDomesticus @neatchee @cwebber Got a source link?
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@cwebber young generations today are too stupid, too brainwashed, too self absorbed, to care
@FelisCatusDomesticus @cwebber they probably act like that toward you because you make this kind of comment that the generation before you was also making about you…
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@FelisCatusDomesticus @cwebber they probably act like that toward you because you make this kind of comment that the generation before you was also making about you…
but what if the comment is true? both then and now..
then what?
should we offer 2 versions? truth and truth lite?
what do you suggest?
