Liberty has costs, but it’s worth it.
These days a computer is pretty much another lobe of your brain. What happens when we actually have computers embedded inside of us? Are they going to restrict access to our own cognition?
System76 on Age Verification Laws
Submitted 12 hours ago by negativenull@piefed.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://blog.system76.com/post/system76-on-age-verification
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Mechanism@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org 12 hours ago
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theherk@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Please drink verification can.
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
There’s an episode of Black Mirror about exactly that and it was hella depressing. I think it starred Chris O’Dowd and Mya Rudolph, who are both usually really funny actors, but it was the opposite of funny.
RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
These days a computer is pretty much another lobe of your brain.
That’s bad, you know that’s bad right?
cecilkorik@piefed.ca 3 hours ago
It can be bad, but it doesn’t have to be. It’s not bad if you’re just using it as a tool and understand that it’s not your only tool. Heavy equipment operators use their machines like extensions of their body. It doesn’t mean it’s bad or that they forget how to use their arms and legs or that they don’t still exercise their arms and legs sometimes. Use tools when it’s appropriate to and don’t when it isn’t, and always make sure you can use a variety of different tools including the ones you were born with and you’ll be fine.
Mechanism@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I know where you’re coming from. I’d say it’s algorithm driven and platform centric consumption that’s bad. If things were more open, it’d be easier to use things like RSS readers to control your influences. The laws should be enforcing open standards, not closing things down.
RandomDude@lemmy.ca 12 hours ago
Very insightful and well written! These Age verification laws are going to far and were never about the kids to being with.
RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Did you read the same article or law?
CA’s law isn’t age verification, it’s an API to return the age bracket for a kid to app stores, the article correctly notes that it won’t be verifying anything.
Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 hours ago
It’s “foot between the door”.
Once this has been established as “normal”, they’ll slowly pile on more and more restrictions.
Better to call out this bullshit know instead of mindlessly agreeing.
4am@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
It’s meant to manufacture consent.
Come back in 5 years and see if they’re still satisfied with it.
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 hours ago
Its demographic data to be misused by advertising companies to see if they’re attracting kids (assuming people are actually truthful; i was totally 18 when i first looked at porn, trust me bro).
tynansdtm@lemmy.ml 5 hours ago
This article was so well-written that I was briefly surprised to encounter the term “nerfed” in the middle. I guess it’s common parlance in tech circles at this point.
BannedVoice@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
After reading that it sure seems like they said a lot just to say that in the end they’ll probably end up complying.
Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
They outline the issues from their perspective.
What else should they do? Break their own licence model (which prohibits (geographic) discrimination) or break the law? It’s either one of those two or comply.
timroerstroem@feddit.dk 5 hours ago
chunes@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
That’s a lot of fancy words to say they’re bending the knee
Telorand@reddthat.com 10 hours ago
A relatively small company can’t afford to fight a protracted legal battle or simply ignore the law. They have employees with families, and $800/hr for legal representation adds up fast, not to mention potentially getting hit with $6500 fines per infraction for refusal to comply. They also can’t afford to just not sell in California, which has a huge chunk of the US population.
We don’t have to be happy about the state of things, but it’s not their fault that capitalism and authoritarianism have effectively forced them to comply.
Be upset by all means, but remember to focus your anger upon those who actually put/is putting these laws in place.
chunes@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Nah, I actively choose to be mad at people who comply with this shit.
The politicians and oligarchs are always going to be shit no matter what. That’s a fundamental law of the universe. Everyone else has a choice.
PointyFluff@lemmy.ml 3 hours ago
PoopOS is garbage. any distro that defaults to wayland is guaranteed trash
chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Every major DE defaults to Wayland now, bruv. You can give up the X11 pitchfork. Even holdouts like Cinnamon have added experimental support.
RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
The only solution is to educate our children about life with digital abundance. Throwing them into the deep end when they’re 16 or 18 is too late. It’s a wonderful and weird world.
I’ve been seeing this or some variant of it, as if current protections are sufficient and we just need better parents. Yet having this procides another layer to teach and monitor.
Also the damage social media does for a 16 year old is far less than an 11 or 13 year old.
TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
It’s more about experience than age. If you prevent 13 year olds from gaining online experience, they’ll have the same level of inexperience when you expose them to the internet at 16.
RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
So you agree it’s good to expose them in a limited way between 13-16 so they gain some experience without being preyed on by predators like Epstein and Kotick?
You agree the law is good then or do you think we should hook babies up to iPads to build up immunity like RFK and the antivax cultists that believe in chickenpox parties over regulations.
OccasionallyFeralya@lemmy.ml 9 hours ago
Or even a 6 year old judging by the amount of literal toddlers with full blown iPads
romanticremedy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 hours ago
Fuck just as I commented yesterday about this BS entering Linux kernel, it can become new reality
deltaspawn0040@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
Oh my God it’s gonna happen. Teenagers are gonna start learning to install hacked Linux distros that lie about their age for access to porn. This might actually be the biggest boon for tech literacy ever.