No one here seems to have read the article.
This bill will NOT require ID uploads or any official documents. It is simply mandating a setting that upon device setup that a parent must state the age of the user using the device. That’s it.
Sounds more like a legal framework for the companies to absolve themselves of the responsibility of protecting kids if they happen to see adult content. They can point and say it’s the parents fault for not inputting the age setting correctly.
It passed the assembly unanimously.
Seems like the parents would have to be vetted to make that Proclamation and their identity connected to that IP for that to happen. So in reality this is a betrayal, in a way that makes it look like it’s not a betrayal so people like you can say no it’s not like that when it is.
I have a sneaking suspicion that if one cuts through all of the details, what one will find is that the thing that really sets this proposal apart, and has earned it Silicon Valley’s support, is that it’s complex and/or expensive enough that established megacorporate social media will be able to meet its provisions but new startups will not, so itwill serve as a barrier to entry to protect their oligopoly.
Absolutely. What’s really frightening though is that companies will now have your real identity, so if the Regime doesn’t like something you post they can send ICE to your house.
The bill also faces last-minute opposition from a powerful California film industry group, foreshadowing a tense debate between Hollywood and Silicon Valley that may force Newsom to choose between the two iconic California industries.
What I find really frightening is that there’s no mention of doing what’s best for the people of California.
The government doesn’t like anonymity: can’t have you getting away with being glad pieces of shit like Charlie are no longer around. Jahvol!
Megacorps don’t like competition OR anonymity: easier to sell your data for more money when it’s higher quality.
Bonus they get to pretend like they’re saving children from seeing titties or whatever. Much like gun laws, it won’t do shit except fuck over honest people.
People of who now? I’m sorry I couldn’t hear you over my bill counter
And it opens the door to even more data collection
It will also force anyone with anonymous accounts it accounts using game info to out themselves.
Feel free to find where it says that…
Did you not understand the phrase " I have a snesking suspicion that" or did you just miss it entirely?
My general point is that saying “I suspect that [something I could have checked]” is the worst kind of lazy cynicism. Just… read it? Or if you don’t have time, ask the question?
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The US governments including the state of California, and Silicon Valley are the cynical pieces of shit and we all know it. This is connecting everybody’s ID to their IP address to be cataloged and everything they do by a novel means.
A database that lower level government and politicians and muckity mucks in the business world and foreign intelligence agencies and hackers will be able to access.
Did you not understand the phrase " I have a snesking suspicion that" or did you just miss it entirely?
Speaking for myself here, FishFace may differ
- No, I did not understand it because snesking isn’t a word in my native language.
- You did not have that phrase in your original post for us to have missed.
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This! ☝
(Sports announcer voice) He could do it folks! He could cut the knees off of his presidential aspirations right here!
They do not see it like that, they think we have no choice and we’ll have to accept the position our betters decide for us. And why wouldn’t they? Three presidential elections in a row they have gotten the most unpopular worthless candidates possible in. And the same people that forced them are still in power in the party, still being shitty to the actual left that they cannot win elections without as they ratchet to plutocracy every election.
Or, he could put it through, and make friends enough with the terrifyingly oligarchic forces that run our society that he might all of a sudden become the “default choice” in the same way that Biden and Hilary were, and they might agree to kneecap anyone who tries to Bernie Sanders him. And we might have six more weeks of winter, so to speak.
Why not force people to identify themselves. Not like they’d go full fascist on us, right?
Right?
The thing is, the NSA already has all of this info, this is a new database they will be collecting that lower level people will have access to, it will be vulnerable to hackers, foreign intelligence, business groups, politicians. First off they’re going to use it to go after people protesting Israel Gauranfuckingteed.
But there is no bottom, there’s no end to it. And not only is this cynical piece of shit Gavin Newsome going to sign this piece of shit, he will probably be forced as the Democratic nominee to lose in 2028. Running SD Kindler gentler status quo of plutocratic rot and zero real reform. Backed by armies of influence agents and Bots online being shitty to anybody that wants a solid reform opposition.
If this guy was presidential material, he would have stood up in 2024 and taken the nomination from the universally unpopular Kamala.
Wo sind deine Papiere?
This ain’t gonna work the way you think it will tech nazis
That’s it. I’m getting a land line and an answering machine. One of the really old ones with the tiny cassette.
This horrific piece of shit bill has just been casually chugging along
