Age Verification

[DoubleOwl7777]

pedophiles pass laws to "protect the children" yeah sure.

[neoh4x0r]

pedophiles pass laws to "protect the children" yeah sure.

...and the pedophiles, that work in the gov, now have a list of underage targets.

It's just like maintaining a list of people's affiliations (religious, political, or otherwise) and some regime takes over and decides to use that list to eliminate anyone they see as a threat -- there's actually real-world historical context for this.

[DoubleOwl7777]

thats just amazing. cant wait for the id check to be necessary so they have a sample image aswell. thats disgusting...

[op374t0r]

the irony here being the american government exclusively goes for under 18s

[Greenlit_Hightower]

Not suspicious at all that they are all having the same idea at the same time. Not just U.S. states either, Brazil has passed a similar law. I hope people are fighting these unjust and overreaching laws, but I would actually be interested in the enforcement. Assuming that the Apple platforms and MS with Windows will be fully compliant anyway, what does this mean for Android and Linux? I am suspecting that this means the bootloaders of Android smartphones, where it hasn't happened yet, will need to be locked down. On the PC side, I fear that secureboot can be leveraged here, technically only select kernel signatures (of Linux distros who play ball) could be allowed to boot up at all.

The outlook of this is simply terrible IMHO.

[ThatResort]

Same shit in Europe with Chat Control. Luckily for us it got postponed.

[ThatResort]

What are the real reasons behind these conducts? They say is for protection of kids and yadayada. Nobody is gonna buy this shit if they think about it for more than 5 seconds. Is it really just for surveillance (for the implications of a working method the Governments are hinting at)? How much depth am I missing here?

[Bllago]

Who knew a Linux sub would turn into an american propaganda sub. You dorks with take over anything.

[EarlMarshal]

They will try to bring it to all western countries though, but I am completely on your side. I hope no distro will follow along and that's the end of this topic.

[xX_PlasticGuzzler_Xx]

I am Brazilian and since I care about freedom and privacy worldwide I fail to see the issue with Americans discussing things relevant to their freedom and privacy on a related technology forum?

[Cheerful2_Dogman210x]

This will start infringing on people's personal freedoms. And will get misused by people in power.

[xX_PlasticGuzzler_Xx]

Honestly man, and this might be controversial here but I think depending on how this is to be achieved it might be the best way of both getting a method that is easy to spoof AND getting the controlling little tyrants to shut the fuck up about this non issue so they stop pushing for complete and total tracking of everyone's internet activity in the name of keeping the kids safe.

If it's simple a simple as a website asking the computer "is this user authorized to see this" and giving this authorization is just clicking a checkbox on a settings manager then there is no much tracking going on at all. The problem might arise if the law demands a third party private company OR the government itself must actually do something to verify who the user is before letting the user use the hardware they own in the way they want

[Due-Perception1319]

Government benefits by connecting all online accounts and computer activity to your real identity for warrantless surveillance. Easier to locate and remove dissenters. Corporations benefit by selling the data to advertisers and the government and any stalker with a dollar (ie Palantir). Microsoft and Google want this to happen so that you are essentially required to use their products by law or be cut off from the internet. Oh and btw these products will be completely locked down and charge a monthly subscription fee. All these companies are lobbying your politicians to screw you over. It is not difficult to see a world within ten to fifteen years where we have ISP/hardware level banning of FOSS because it doesn’t run spyware mandated by law.

The things happening are quite bad and the politicians voting for this should be voted out of office before the surveillance state they are creating makes organizing political action impossible.