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.
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?
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.
What they’ll do is make buying second hand as difficult as possible, then make you pay for your devices in a verified way where you are recognized. Every device will most likely have a fingerprint on it so if you connect to the internet through it, all that traffic is tied to you at a hardware level.
Please don’t underestimate the people in these federal agencies. They might not seem like the ones pushing it, but they are absolutely carrying out the will of billionaires who think we deserve nothing. And the people working in these agencies are not dumb, they are smart and they are ruthless.
They are serving people who are determined to get their way. And only a massive, and threatening push back will stop this.
You think a Raspberry Pi is hard? Try an elevator.
It has a computer that likely runs the linux kernal, a user interface, the emergecy call feature probably uses VOIP and is likely internet connected, and it may even have hundreds of unique users per day!
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.
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.
Where is the link for this?
I’ll go back to buying porn in person with cash.
“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.”
We’re going back to usenet
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.
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.
