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.
Why not force people to identify themselves. Not like they’d go full fascist on us, right?
Right?
That’s it. I’m getting a land line and an answering machine. One of the really old ones with the tiny cassette.
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.
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.
This! ☝
(Sports announcer voice) He could do it folks! He could cut the knees off of his presidential aspirations right here!
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.
This ain’t gonna work the way you think it will tech nazis
This horrific piece of shit bill has just been casually chugging along
