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

• RandallFlagg@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Are you pre or post 9/11? It is very obvious that the slope is slippery.

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    • sudoer777@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Otherwise it is just the slippery slope fallacy.

      What do you think their intentions are, and why?

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      • Archr@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        The intentions for the law?

        AB 1043 offers a scalable, privacy-first approach that helps keep kids safe while holding tech companies accountable. -Assemblymember Wicks

        This ia a quote directly from the author of the bill link for reference.

        Now of course the obvious question many people might ask is “are they being truthful?” But that is a question that people will have to answer for themselves.

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    • RandallFlagg@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      no, i cant provide and sources because that’s just what i’m assuming will happen. don’t get me wrong, it is totally fair to ask for hard evidence of these claims, and the fact is, right now, that doesn’t exist.

      but just based on my past experience with how the government likes to do things and hypothetically putting myself in their shoes, that’s my, we’ll call it “hypothesis”, on what’s gonna happen. my belief is that, at the end of the day, the government and big tech want’s to collect as much information about the public as they possibly can, and this is the order of operations that they are going to take to achieve that.

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    • ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Non-fallacious forms can also exist. It is fairly obvious that it is warranted in authoritarian regimes to expect progression (regression?).

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