"Allow parents to...limit access to apps"

Which "apps"? Who determines which apps need to be age approved? Notepad? Couldn't you write something horrific and send it with that app? Better let the government take that control for you and dictate to OS creators what your kids and you see. They will of course come for your apps next.

They always name bill the opposite of what the bill does. It's part of the sales campaign.

I would like to remind viewers that image is over 20 years old, and remains relevant (even more today than it ever was).

GrapheneOS about to become illegal/probable cause for a terrorism charge. The goal is to criminalize everyone who opposes MAGA tyranny.

Been running GrapheneOS for years now. Started with a Pixel 3, then moved to a Pixel 6 Pro, and now have it on a Pixel 9 Pro. It is ridiculously easy to install and use, and is regularly updated. I love it!

I just put postmarketos on my spare OnePlus 6T. Pretty satisfied with it so far. Plasma mobile suits me better than gnome mobile or phosh.

I preordered the jolla phone with sailfish OS... hopefully that will be a good alternative to todays monopoly

Companies would love to know the age of a person using a device

There is a reason why Meta is pushing for age verification. They love children due to the fact that advertisers love to get children hooked early on a product. You should be very careful about who advertises to your child

I mean I only have one person I'm interested in flirting with and I think it would be helpful to know which spaces have minors in them. Not required tho. I really don't want to be sharing bootyhole memes with 12 year olds. If I did I'd be on roblox.

Fortunately this space is small enough we've got a regular contingent of us old farts (and a few young folk) who keep dropping by. Youngest person I am aware of is 18 (and no one needs to out themselves to disapprove that).

And since it's us old farts:

Until you’re like the poor guy I met who couldn’t get out of the courthouse’s parking garage because you pay with an app and he didn’t have a phone.

Just don't get a major infection. That will end your fantasy one way or the other.

Agreed. Or locked bootloaders for that matter

I've been talking about this "CEOs should think as parents" thing for years now. It was seen in a good light back then.

Did you miss the word "all" in the headline?

Well you won't be here because all -ALL - social media sites will require an age code.

Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta’s $2B Lobbying for Invasive Age Verification Tech

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/reddit-user-uncovers-behind-meta-154717384.html

Well it's called the "Parents Decide Act" and these things usually have opposite effects from the name, so I'm pretty sure that it's actually going to end up being a small handful of puritans deciding what's appropriate for everyone else's children.

Well the MP who brought the bill forward has said people who criticise Israel should be imprisoned.

You forgot the "religious fanatics get to shove their religion down other people's throat".

Stuff like that is making me unironically anti-theist.

Everyone knows this, including those who wrote and will vote for the bill. They don't care if kids circumvent it, as protecting kids is not what the bill is about. No government gives a fuck about kids, beyond the number on the population chart.

The problem is that modern platforms outside of Windows aren't hackable. Chromebooks are easy to lock down and predatory companies like Goguardian sell dysopian surveillance tech in the name of child safety. Children are being put under 1984 like surveillance as they aren't old enough to protect themselves.

Some small flicker of hope for the future...

You won't be able to access any restricted sites without an age code.

Windows does not require you to verify your age.

"parents" ≈ "adults". The whole "think of the children" argument is a red herring anyways, but if you see how they are using it and which specific metaphorical levers of information control they are pulling, you can make more informed choices. At least I think that's the point of the article.

CI/CD just became a lot harder when every container needs the users age verified. Not just configured, verified.

Have you actually spent time considering whether age verification is beneficial?

Yes, and it's not.

Whether parents think that their children spend too much time online, or whether the teenagers think that themselves?

That has no bearing on whether or not every single website, advertising service , and application needs access to my PII.

Have you taken their input and concerns serious?

Yes, but if they aren't willing to take responsibility for themselves or their children, then I don't really give those concerns much weight.

if you think for one second that anything requiring digital ID or age verification in the united states under this current fascist regime will be anything but a detriment to the american people who are already being stolen from their homes, beaten, tortured, raped, killed, and shipped off to foreign countries, separating children from their families, they are raping children in ICE detention facilities so commonly that there is a noticeable rise in underage pregnancy inside these facilities. many of which go missing after the fact.

this streamlines child abduction for ICE agents and therefore streamlines child sex trafficking in the united states as a side effect of increased surveillance over the entire united states population.

quit being naive.

if parents really cared about their children online, they would either get them a dumb phone or even simply google how to install parental controls on their cellphones, routers, desktops, laptops, pads, etc.

having the state (especially this state) being responsible for parenting your children will leave them exposed to to fascism, fascistic ideals, and becoming victims themselves of trafficking and abuse by authority.

your entire post reads like someone who is terribly, terribly misinformed on the dangers and implications of this kind of state/federal level of control over the internet. and what that means not only for the children, but also whistle blowers, protestors, resistance members, unions, and average every day people like you who think that following the rules will keep you and your loved ones safe from harm.

being a good well natured person in the united states is quite literally punishable by death in the eyes of the law. keeping your head down and out of the way, following the rules, its as good as being complicit in fascism itself.

this law is fascist. end. of. story.

sorry you were mislead by billions of dollars worth of propaganda that makes it seem like a good idea.

If '99.9% of people don’t know any parental controls, and many believe that there are no effective parental controls today' is true then adding Government surveillance to the problem doesn't help especially when children are much more tech savvy than your average poli and will find a workaround in about a week. You are also assuming that the parental controls they implement are going to be easy to navigate. I think it would be far easier to create new laws that make social media liable for harmful or explicit content they allow on their platforms.

Let’s go best case scenario for ya: How exactly is a law requiring more parental controls supposed to help parents who already don’t know how to use the parental controls available to them? Won’t this just be yet another thing they don’t bother to understand?

That's not tribalism, that's holding your elected officials accountable.