- Kongar@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish4 hours
It’s called “parenting.” Yes, it’s harder these days with the internet and literally everything “right there.” But it’s still your job as a parent.
ANYTIME ANYONE imposes restrictions “for the children” - there’s something nefarious going on. If it’s a politician-they are looking to build a database for $. If it’s your priest-he’s banging the alter boy after ccd, or hates himself so much for being gay he’s lashing out at the lgbtq community. If it’s a company-they’ve either been threatened into doing it or more likely are on the take with a fat payday. If it’s a developer adding it into Linux, they should expect fierce skepticism and backlash from the community.
It’s NEVER about the children. It’s always an alternative motive. If they actually cared about kids, they’d make sure they were fed at school, they’d invest in their education, or they’d invest into social programs to help out those less fortunate.
- givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish1 hour
The only way to “protect” or “target” any demographic is to first identify everyone to see if they’re in that demographic.
That’s almost always the only reason it’s done.
- Zanz@lemmy.mlEnglish3 hours
The california law isn’t actually age verification. It is unchecked age assertion at the operating system level. He is also there specifically for the parents to fill out.When a new device is purchased. I have no doubts.It will be misused and lead to age verification in the OS with a third party verifying the age, but that isnt want the bill is now
5 hoursSee you in a year or 2.
Play as old as times:
- Company announces garbage change
- People freak out
- Company says ok we will only do half of the garbage
- People calm down and forget
- Company later does the rest of the garbage
- Nobody cares because half of it is already there
- chunes@lemmy.worldEnglish24 minutes
That reminds me. We are quickly approaching the date discord postponed age verification to.
- tempest@lemmy.caEnglish2 hours
I mean it makes total sense the minute you think about it at all.
- some middle managers year end goals include this unpalatable feature
- they release it
- public freaks out
- pr walks it back a bit
- that managers back at work the week after trying to get that feature in because they need to justify the work they just did on it for better compensation
It’s the same with laws.
It’s very hard to get the electorate united to oppose something but if they manage to unite and oppose a bill the lobbyists are back at work on Monday pushing it by a different name.
- Tim_Bisley@piefed.socialEnglish5 hours
Foot in the door technique is a timeless way to get what you want. People seem oblivious to it.
- new_guy@lemmy.worldEnglish4 hours
Actually they only stay in the boiling water if their nervous system is impaired
- tidderuuf@lemmy.worldEnglish3 hours
Are you implying that CA regulators do exactly what disgusting corporations do?!? I am shocked sir!
- squaresinger@lemmy.worldEnglish4 hours
Tbh, this is just a massive stack of misguidedness.
First, look at what the original law does:
- OS needs to know the age.
- OS itself doesn’t do anything with the age
- OS needs to provide the age to apps and services asking for it
- Apps and services need to block content based on the age provided with the OS
- If the OS doesn’t provide an age, apps and services have to block as if the user was a toddler
Removing the requirement for the OS to provide an age doesn’t change anything at all, because someone running an OS that doesn’t provide an age will just be blocked everywhere. That’s not a solution, that’s a joke to appease idiots who don’t know what the law does.
This is just as misguided as the backlash against systemd who added an age field to the user account to allow people to be still able to access age-restricted content.
The actually relevant part that people should be combatting is the requirement for apps and services to do age verification using the OS-provided age. The OS age field doesn’t matter.
- ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.comEnglish4 hours
The most pedophilic government in history desperately needs to know if your children are on the computer
… For reasons
- [object Object]@lemmy.caEnglish4 hours
This is like winning a small fight and continuing to march on to Moscow on the winter.
They’ll keep whittling rights down until everything you do is logged with your ID and is whitelisted for your consumption (and I mean whitelisted by rich white list of folks who have the power).
Anything LGBTQ will be blocked as controversial. And teaching they don’t like will be hidden. Was slavery bad? “Well, that’s controversial. The Europeans did nothing but civilize those savages don’t you know! And our wealth justifies the whole thing!”
- brokenwing@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish5 hours
Install a router/device based content filter if you need to block children from accessing porn.
- 3 hours
Considering things that are, or could be considered as, porn are everywhere from Reddit to Wikipedia, that doesn’t fix the issue. But I agree, this is something for parents to deal with, not legislation.
- partofthevoice@lemmy.zipEnglish4 hours
TV on wall aggregates and displays daily web data for each device?
So they’re basically admitting that they don’t need this for any computer since if you don’t need it for open source why would you need it for closed source? You think kids don’t know how to download and install linux? If I could do it with floppies and a book in the 90s then kids today can do it with a USB image and LLM assistance.
But in reality they’ll probably just wait for a few years and try and push it through again like how they do with most shitty legislation.
- njordomir@lemmy.worldEnglish19 minutes
On your last point: I think that’s why Colorado should do a referendum. If we collect enough signatures the passed law goes to the ballot and the citizens can reject it. We can also collect signatures to get a constitutional amendment on the ballot to ban some of the most invasive age/identity verification going forward.
- cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish2 hours
Most kids don’t know anything about computers these days. All they know are phones and tablets. Maybe this will get them to learn some basic computer skills.
- Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish1 hour
You think kids don’t know how to download and install linux?
Yes. I think most kids don’t know how to download linux. Just the same as I think most adults don’t know how to do it. It doesn’t matter if it’s actually easy. That’s not the question. The question is if people know how to do it.
Just the same I don’t think they know how to download a non-google based browser.
It’s not about difficulty. It’s about desire to do so. I’ve heard pancakes are very easy to make. I have no desire to make pancakes. I’m 42 and have never made pancakes. I know there’s eggs and flour, and a bowl. I’d have to learn. And to learn, I have to want to learn. And that all goes back to having desire to learn.
Necessity is the mother of innovation. And right now, 90% of the population do not give a damn about which os they use. They just call it “the facebook machine”, and it’s their cell phone.
Desktop across all platforms is dying. Windows 11 sucks. The ram costs are making everything unobtainable. The vast majority don’t even know there is a different way. They just pull out their cell phone, check their tiktok and whatever else, and they go about their day.
At this point three people have desktops. Gamers, hobbyists, and people who need them for work.
So yeah. I DO think most people have zero clue that you can install linux from a usb. I also think most people have never heard of linux.
I wish I still knew where this comic was. It was two geologists, and they’re discussing how the common man must surely know of the starter rocks that everybody knows. Then they start listing a bunch of crystals and rocks nobody has ever heard of before. And they say “oh, and obviously everybodys heard of (insert rock you’ve never heard of)” and his coworker says “well obviously”.
Completely unaware that what seems common to them is completely unknown to everyone else. I really feel like about 30-50% of linux users have that mentality about PCs. They have a PC. They find Linux easy. Therefore it IS easy, and everybody on earth can use linux.
For some of you, you don’t see the failure of that logic, while the rest of you are cringing right now.
Necessity is the mother of invention. If you put enough roadblocks in the way these kids will learn same as we did. The only difference is they’ll have an LLM and youtube videos to learn what they need instead of BBS, IRC, and books like we used. Kids know how to search the web. They might not know what they don’t know but as soon as they search “how do i browse the web without my computer telling on me” and linux comes up then they’ll fall down the rabbit hole. It’s like you think these kids exist in bubbles.
