• FishFace@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      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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        1 day ago

        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.

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          5 hours ago

          How is this connecting people’s ID to their IP address when this does not involve anything to do with people’s ID?

          How did you manage to not only not read the article, but also fail to read the second highest top-level comment which points out exactly this?

          This, by the way, is exactly why I think the comment I reply to should not have been made: it’s contributing baseless suspicion and cynicism, and when other people read it, it arouses their suspicion, but without any remnant of whatever tenuousness may have been possessed by the original commenter. You aren’t saying “I have a suspicion” you are saying “this is connecting…” as if you know it. But you don’t know it - you haven’t even read about what you’re talking about.

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            4 hours ago

            Making the parents sign the disclaimer introduces a database that these politicians and lower level government officials have access to. This is a lawyerly and run around doing the same thing while still having deniability to be shitty with anybody taking issue with it, which is you. You either trust politicians, or are being dishonest here.

            • FishFace@lemmy.world
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              1 hour ago

              What database are you talking about? The database of Google accounts? That already exists. Government officials don’t (as far as we know) have access to it, and in any case that is not something this would change. Right?

              Can you be specific about what new information (or access) this bill would introduce? The only thing the article or from my (non-exhaustive) reading of the bill introduces is that accounts would now have to have age bracket information in addition to the information they already have. How will that allow anything nefarious or harmful?

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                37 minutes ago

                First of all, the information data Brokers collect which includes Google is sold to government agencies that use it without warrant or judicial supervision.

                Second of all, this is locking down the internet. Make no mistake, it is a worldwide phenomenon, California is trying to be sneaky to fool the dumb shits that do not know what is going on. I am sure they have plenty of dumbasses and influence agents and trolls too push their point of view online as well to fool said dumb shits.

                Those of us in reality know better though.

    • Baron Von J@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      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

      1. No, I did not understand it because snesking isn’t a word in my native language.
      2. You did not have that phrase in your original post for us to have missed.
      3. 😜