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Comment on System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks

From what I can tell, the ‘age’ part is misdirection. They want to restrict computer use to the “good” people, to make it “safer”.

Using age restrictions first allows legislation to be passed “for the children” using the idea of potential harm to theoretical children. However, in practice, legislators expect the implementation of the age check to be capable of checking anything else they want to about your identity, as a prerequisite for access. Probably using a combination of face scans and ID scans.

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Archr@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
This is just the slippery slope argument.

The California law does not require verification. Only attestation.

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- RandallFlagg@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  California, as of today, does not require any kind of verification to install an OS (how it’s always been).
  
  This law gets passed, now they require “attestation”.
  
  A year or two from now, they’re gonna push for for actual age verification.
  
  A year or two after that, the government will make a new law saying that your drivers license is no longer a valid form of identification, they’re gonna need a retina scan or some other form of “bio” identification.
  
  Next thing you know, you’ll be pressing your dick imprint on your PC’s automated Cock-Scanner-v4 encryption tray that pops out of your laptop like a cd-rom drive every time you need to check your email.
  
  Slippery slope, indeed.
  
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  - Archr@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Can you provide any sources for these? Maybe a california legislator saying they plan to do this? Or a proposed law? Otherwise it is just the slippery slope fallacy. While that doesn’t disprove what you said it does not provide a valid argument for it either.
    
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    0x0@infosec.pub ⁨49⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
    Are you pre or post 9/11? It is very obvious that the slope is slippery.
    
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nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I don’t even understand what good this is. what does this do for them? The government has a database of identities and now it’s going to have a database of identities with computers? for what

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- Sanctus@anarchist.nexus ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  You arent going deep enough. Its about building a web of all of your online identities to crush dissent and influence public opinion. Susie frequents anarchist.nexus under the user the_cloaked and there she seems to interact with another user, lilanarkiddy, a lot. Steven’s windows computer also reported that he frequents the site, under the user lilarnarkiddy. And you see where that will lead to.
  
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