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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?
@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 kids today dont have the slightest idea how the tech they use daily even works
@cwebber young generations today are too stupid, too brainwashed, too self absorbed, to care
@FelisCatusDomesticus That's just not true
@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
@FelisCatusDomesticus They're too disempowered to feel like they can do something about it, which is a different thing
@cwebber @FelisCatusDomesticus The kids grew up in a panopticon. I am sorry, but it is true.
The ONLY way we get them to push back is if we can show them that not only is there an alternative, but it is one that a person can thrive in.
@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.
@cwebber there are alternatives, but only a small minority use them rest simply gulp the kool aid that is served to them
@cwebber well then i guess they will remain disempowered until they put their collective energies into being something else.
@FelisCatusDomesticus One is a failure of the kids, the other a failure of the society around the kids
@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
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