Ok, I removed my initial comment about liking it. It was before I understood the real reasons for it.

Its easy to fall victim to this actually. A change in society seems good on the surface, until you get why they are doing it.

Because evil runs these people. Its actually that simple. When these guys speak, its easy to hear they are evil, because of how they speak.

And they know other people are good, so they wont immediately agree with a dystopian society. So you take small steps, where each one looks good on the surface to the billions of people who only hear about this for 5 seconds on the news.

Yes of course. I meant that they are part of the social media thing, and they may also be required to implement age verification if things become bad.

Body shaming a cat… Now I have heard it all. Lol.

America is already deciding almost everything about the internet, through owning the operating systems, the networks, big tech companies, Ai, and so on.

They could make a law that forces all major american websites to require a global auth cookie, that people can only get by doing age verification at some site.

Yeah im doing open source, that still feels good. :)

Yeah. If I needed collaboration, I would just whitelist their ips or require everyone involved to use Wireguard vpn, Tailscale or other solutions that allows access without being publically exposed.

Im upvoting you, you put so much effort into this response and made me think twice about it. Perhaps you are right. I would love if you are. And yeah, its australia, not the US, of course.

Lol we have a winner here :)

Yeah thanks for that. I dont put that much work into any comment. Impressive!

My opinion is that the US government is in bed with the tech industry and their wet dream together is to watch and control the entire population, on the internet as well as in real life.

Thats why I dont think this is about protecting children. Its just how they get to their end goal of authentication on the internet for everyone. Step one is stuff like this, require id to verify your age.

Step two is to implement it for everyone because “we already have age verification for kids, lets make it more automatic for everyone by letting people authenticate when they use the internet”. Thats how it goes. :)

Always wanted to see a modern country becoming dystopian though. Could be a big hit on tripadvisor. Once a beacon for freedom in the western world, the US decided it really liked how North Korea is treating its people and decided to do the same using its love affair with big tech psychos like Sam Altman and Elon Musk.

I disagree, but thanks for your opinion anyway. :)

You just still have belief in the US government being good and want to protect kids. Thats nice.

Yeah I understood what its really about when I read hacker news comments.

Well I changed my opinion. :)

Probably bigger than that - they want to make all of us feel watched. But yeah, its worse if you are in a group the US government is currently oppressing. The way things are going, I guess we all will be in some kind of a group like that sooner or later. Like “social media terrorist” for having negative opinions about the US online.

People have open registration on those things… Thats… Brave…

I have my own gitea instance in my homelab but of course its not accessable from the internet.

I think they are all going further and further into madness. Us government and big tech together.

They dont seem to understand that themselves. The consciousness of wanting to control by force, in combination with big tech dystopian dreams of raising humans with Ai, and watching everybody in real time… Its a very strong difference in that kind of consciousness compared to a good person on this planet.

Ive lost interest in building technology solutions myself. Because its just about ads and control now. Its just the wrong kind of consciousness in charge of humanity. Tech isnt helping us, its making us more and more helpless and depressed.

I think they are not even interested in any of that. Its just a method of control. Continuing to apply pressure to people, reminding them to bow down to authority.

They can already get the social media history from any big tech company. :)

I heard on the news today that the US is planning to force people visiting their slave pen country to show their social media history and 5 years of recent phone numbers. :)

They really dont want anyone coming there do they… :)

https://www.dw.com/en/us-demands-access-to-tourists-social-media-histories/a-75096949

Yeah exactly. So it keeps everyone in their place, powerless to change anything within the structure that exist. Exactly as intended.