yes yes yes hammer on the head
Comment on New York Bill Would Force Age ID Checks at the Device Level
just2look@lemmy.zip 15 hours agoHow are you verifying the age at the device level? Unless it allows you just say your age, then it will require sending personal information to some ‘verifying authority’. Every age verification push is just an expansion of the surveillance state.
Anything the state does to ‘protect kids’ is bullshit until they ensure every child has food, medical care, proper education, housing, etc.
andybytes@programming.dev 14 hours ago
Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 hours ago
I’m not advocating. I’m asking a question. Not making a statement.
Lfrith@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
Does it not send off alarm bells seeing meta stated as one of the lobbyists? Do they really have a track record that makes you think device would be any better?
just2look@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
Oh, I wasn’t trying to be argumentative. I was just trying to answer that at the fundamental level there has to be someone trusted to verify your info, so the data can’t just stay on your device. Unless they just trust the user to state their own age which would defeat the purpose of the law.
The rest was mostly just because I’m so sick of the bullshit and I didn’t feel like making a separate comment in addition to replying to you. Sorry if I came off as hostile to you.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Why?
Why does there need to be age verification at all?
We’ve had computera since the 1940s, and never needed this. We’ve had the internet since the 1990s and never needed this.
Now that a pedophile is in the white house, and an entire network of pedophile politicians have been revealed, NOW they want to protect the children???
And you honestly believe that?
just2look@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
I don’t know if you’re intentionally misunderstanding what I am saying or what, but I’m not saying age verification is needed. I’m saying that for their age verification plan to function, there would need to be a verifying authority and identifying information would need to be passed from your device to them.
My first comment should have made it very clear that all of this is baseless garbage designed to further state surveillance goals.
Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 hours ago
Ok, so again I’m not very smart on this subject. Could we not make a universal id system that locally authenticates and only sends a confirmation to say, Facebook or pornhub?
just2look@lemmy.zip 14 hours ago
Well to build a universal ID system, we would have to give everyone a unique digital ID that is then associated with their device. So even if it’s claimed it would only be used to verify age where required, its trivial to then use that unique ID to track other device activity and tie it to your real identity.
There has already been examples of law enforcement using cellphone tower data, commercial ad IDs, social media posts, and anything else they can get to track and locate people without warrants or legal justification. So this would just be another way to tie digital activity to your real identity.
Lfrith@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
Do you really trust your government to know every single account associated with you? Do you trust the current leader and future leaders of your country to have every internet activity easily linked to you? Countries like the US will no longer have to subpoena for that information like they recently did for reddit users critical of ICE.
So does it really make you feel better to have the government in control of a universal ID system?
ooterness@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
JAQing off
Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 hours ago
Ok👍