Christine Lemmer-Webber
Colorado pushing for age verification on the OS level https://www.pcmag.com/news/colorado-lawmakers-push-for-age-verification-at-the-operating-system-level
Red alert! If this sounds like bad shit that's because IT IS
There was a time when the whole internet would be rallied against this stuff.....
Christine Lemmer-Webber
@FelisCatusDomesticus That's just not true
FelisCatusDomesticus
@cwebber young generations today are too stupid, too brainwashed, too self absorbed, to care
Christine Lemmer-Webber
@FelisCatusDomesticus One is a failure of the kids, the other a failure of the society around the kids
Christine Lemmer-Webber
@FelisCatusDomesticus They're too disempowered to feel like they can do something about it, which is a different thing
Carolyn
@cwebber The big thing is the 3rd parties with whom the data is shared and who are likely sponsoring these bills.
Krzysztof Sakrejda
@FelisCatusDomesticus @cwebber just FYI young generations today are *not* the ones passing these laws in Colorado 😆
Ordovician
@FelisCatusDomesticus @cwebber a lot of us are very jaded though. We(Gen Z and Gen Alpha) haven't had much privacy in our lives, so this is pretty much all we have known, but a lot of us care very deeply
Ordovician
@FelisCatusDomesticus @cwebber young person here, what are you talking about?
Yuri Brainwashing Co.
@FelisCatusDomesticus @cwebber oh, damn! they must just not have thought of that.
where should they go, man? you cant make a forum nowadays without consulting an international law student. the alternatives are user-unintuitive and janky when they work at all, and then they inevitably become nazis too. matrix loves the police and military. fedi makes a blocklist of lgbt people.
we live in an authoritarian world, and the internet exists in that context; and so of course, the internet tries to shove us all into authoritarian social structures. dont blame the kids, fix the system. stop punching down.
FelisCatusDomesticus
@cwebber I dont observe anyone dropping corporate social media en masse or cutting ties with the megacorps that actively disempower them and have for decades
Rich Felker
@FelisCatusDomesticus @cwebber Cringe olds shitting on youngs. Always so embarrassing.
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