Comment on Colorado Lawmakers Push for Age Verification at the Operating System Level
Feyd@programming.dev 1 day ago
Iirc California had a similar proposal to this. I actually think it’s not a terrible idea at the core. It’s basically an API for parental controls. You set up a device (or account on a device) and say “this is a device for a kid” and that gets used for everything. It actually makes a lot of sense to do something in that direction. Part of the reason people are convinced something needs to be done is because managing parental controls across the different myriad services and apps is a labyrinth thattech savvy patents can barely navigate, and less savvy patents don’t stand a chance.
paul@lemmy.org 20 hours ago
Well then the solution is to have some company create a solution to make parental controls much easier.
Instead you’re going to give your ID to Peter Thiel who will use that to connect all of your online activity to a single profile of you. Eventually, when he and Trump and all the other right wing idiots feel emboldened they’ll send Gestapo to your house on voting day to make sure you can’t make it to the polls (or just straight up nullify your vote). And that’s the best case scenario.
Palantir is positioning itself as a crime prevention system that needs access to all of your health, education, spending and other data until they know every single thing about you so they can “predict crime before it happens”.
In 10 years time, the world is going to be a far worse place and people like you will be to blame for allowing it.
Feyd@programming.dev 20 hours ago
Where does it say you give anyone your ID?
paul@lemmy.org 19 hours ago
How else are they going to verify your age?
Feyd@programming.dev 19 hours ago
So you didn’t even read it before writing a diatribe accusing me of supporting things I absolutely don’t. It literally says in the fucking bill that you just input it into the device.