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@cwebber
"The bill comes from state Sen. Matt Ball and Rep. Amy Paschal, both Democrats."

Seriously... Get to know the candidates rather than just looking for the R or the D. Just voting blue doesn't get us where we need to be.

@cwebber If it isn't ID verification at an OS level, this might actually be one of the best solutions.

@cwebber the only good news about this is they can't do shit about linux, and at least some (probably most) distros will not add such "features"

@cwebber CO Sen. Matt Ball and CO Rep. Amy Paschal are stupid, or sellouts, or (most probably) both.

@cwebber It’s all lost anyway. Soon you’ll rent your online time anyway and then you only get the pure sanitized internet. Where you are only allowed to consume but have no opinion

@cwebber "The bill comes from state Sen. Matt Ball and Rep. Amy Paschal, both Democrats."

@cwebber people fail to imagine a time and place where you needed to be a registered type writer owner. It was real, and it's happening here.

@cwebber This is disgusting and btw, also an indirect attack on #FreeSoftware if I read this right.

Computers should be under the control of the user, NOT of random corporations or the state.

I don't care if this law is probably going to not even work as intended because of shoddy implementation. The state may be tech illiterate but it DOES know how to punish people.

Fuck that shit. I hope this law will FAIL badly.

@cwebber cc FYI @theruran @50htz @vidak @oceane @nobody @forthy42

This is what happens in an unavoidable way in the current cyberspace concept and architecture (And its digital systems architectures and concepts) that is "not natively aware" of citizenship.

With our alternatives, such abuses would not exist. And age verification useless because citizenship native awareness.

@cwebber I've come around to the anti-libertarian position, call it, maybe... the common-good position, or the socialist position, that the number and capability of predatory for-profit corporations that are operating in cyber space justifies the creation and very aggressive enforcement of laws for protecting minors.

Imagine if the US surgeon general didn't have those warnings about cigarettes, and if tobacco companies were still allowed to advertise on T.V., and place physical ads near schools

@cwebber c'mon CO yskb.

This younger generation will definitely find a way to communicate online - WAY smarter than the politicians 😉.

@cwebber

“No personal information is communicated that you could use to identify somebody; it’s just an age bracket signal”

Does anyone believe that?

@cwebber there was a time when the entire Internet was rabidly against ads too. Good times.

@cwebber how does this affect Linux distributions? What if a distro is too small and doesn’t have the means?

@cwebber How in the absolute shit are they expecting to enforce such a ridiculous regulation? Or is that not something politicians care about?

@cwebber what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck

@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.

https://sites.coleg.gov/public-testimony/sign-up-to-testify/step-1

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. 🥴

@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)

@cwebber times like these make me glad that I don't ever throw away working computer hardware. My 15 year old paranoia is paying off for reasons I couldn't have anticipated. The ram in that broken laptop's probably worth something these days

@cwebber 20 hours (and on a weekend) is not enough time to rally the whole internet, give them a few extra hours)

@cwebber holy fuck no. this is literally just pparents salty that their kids aren't buying into the shit parents are pushing, and even saltier that kids are, y'know, demanding rights

@cwebber at that point why not just age verify at the building level?

@cwebber @demofox I keep getting this idea that all we need is a UEFI Boolean about whether the device is operated by a minor, and to require ID checks to prevent devices being sold to minors. Then parents can just pw protect the BIOS old school style, and if young Billy builds his own Linux kernel patching the device tree to always show adult the they win the porn prize. I suppose we’d need a solve for defaults reset, too, but doable.

@cwebber young generations today are too stupid, too brainwashed, too self absorbed, to care