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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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.....
“No personal information is communicated that you could use to identify somebody; it’s just an age bracket signal”
Does anyone believe that?
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@FelisCatusDomesticus They're too disempowered to feel like they can do something about it, which is a different thing
@cwebber @FelisCatusDomesticus The youth never had an internet that wasn't corporate oligarch-owned extremist scam garbage. So I totally get it if they don't care. A lot of us olds are nostalgic for an Internet that hasn't existed for a long time.
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@FelisCatusDomesticus @cwebber And how should they without adults im their lifes teaching them. The Art of Introducing Kids to Networked Turing Machines...
@KarlHeinzHasliP @FelisCatusDomesticus @cwebber Not just that - computer design today emphasizes hiding how things work. Which gets annoying real fast but also doesn't lend itself to encouraging people to look deeper.
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@fluffykittycat @gorlak @cwebber so true. There used to be a great Wiccan search engine avatarsearch.com, it was killed like 15 years ago with the usual reasons for censorship (something is probably squating in its place now). The world is a worse place without 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.....
This younger generation will definitely find a way to communicate online - WAY smarter than the politicians
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@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)
Actually its a greater evil since one login will access everything rather than having to do lots. Centralisation of anything is the worst form of control there is. Its one reason Mastodon itself is defederated.
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@cwebber information is widely available in society.. kids simply don't care. they are more interested in Bad Bunny's superbowl performance than they are about higher issues. This is nothing new. Young people's trivial minds. It's a form of self-disempowerment. A phase everyone must pass through on the way to mature adulthood. That having been said, this proposed law is ludicrous.
@FelisCatusDomesticus @cwebber your posts come off as very ageist and judgemental. I'm pleasantly surprised at how the younger generation understands technology, social media and AI in a way that older generations do not. Perhaps there's a larger portion of the younger generations that are not within your view.
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@cwebber I dont observe anyone dropping corporate social media en masse or cutting ties with the megacorps that actively disempower them and have for decades
@FelisCatusDomesticus @cwebber I don't observe that either, *regardless of age or generation*. I don't know why you expect that specifically of mine (and the other "younger generations", hopefully excluding gen beta) while we're mostly watching our parents believe every bot post on Facebook
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@cwebber @FelisCatusDomesticus The youth never had an internet that wasn't corporate oligarch-owned extremist scam garbage. So I totally get it if they don't care. A lot of us olds are nostalgic for an Internet that hasn't existed for a long time.
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@KarlHeinzHasliP @FelisCatusDomesticus @cwebber Not just that - computer design today emphasizes hiding how things work. Which gets annoying real fast but also doesn't lend itself to encouraging people to look deeper.
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@FelisCatusDomesticus @cwebber And how should they without adults im their lifes teaching them. The Art of Introducing Kids to Networked Turing Machines...
@KarlHeinzHasliP @FelisCatusDomesticus @cwebber this, I'm really tired of older generations complaining about how stupid mine is for not learning the things they refused to teach us. I don't usually quote Blink 182 but I think they summed it up pretty well with "if we're fucked up, you're to blame". Raise your damn kids, teach other people's kids as much as you can get away with, and you might find that we had that potential all along but we were fucking neglected by the generations before ours
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@KarlHeinzHasliP @FelisCatusDomesticus @cwebber this, I'm really tired of older generations complaining about how stupid mine is for not learning the things they refused to teach us. I don't usually quote Blink 182 but I think they summed it up pretty well with "if we're fucked up, you're to blame". Raise your damn kids, teach other people's kids as much as you can get away with, and you might find that we had that potential all along but we were fucking neglected by the generations before ours
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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 Reading through the bill has been interesting
If it passes, it seems that pretty much anyone behind a Linux distro will be bankrupted if they dare to enter Colorado -
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 would this even be possible for freedom-respecting operating systems? would it just make every GNU/Linux distro illegal unless its package manager implemented a pointless and trivial-to-bypass age check based on putting birth date in gecos (or something like that)? -
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