Even if that were the case this is still happening. The groundwork is being laid for Apple and Google to provide age signals for things like adult websites (and not just porn). It's not a big leap to see location…
Yes, this is part of living in a society.
I think ultimately we're headed for locked device attestation for age and physical location, and legislation like this is going to be a driving force. If that wasn't bad enough, I think most people are ultimately in…
> Yes, but they have the uncomfortable reality of having to police the results of it I'm not against adding some friction to certain behavior deemed undesirable by society, but at the end of the day people are going to…
> The court was right, but it kind of sucks for Utah in this case. They should have the right in some way to uphold their gambling laws. They still have the right to legislate, just not the technical capability to…
Good relationships won't do much when China puts the squeeze on Taiwan. Obviously there are other fabs in other countries, but the EU won't be the only market looking for alternatives.
>Microsoft even addressed the criticism that Windows was largely not possible to use from keyboard, and massively improved it starting with Win10. And then shit the bed completely with Windows 11. The (lack of) keyboard…
> Is anyone else as stunned as I am by how many posters on tech websites have suddenly gone full anti-free-internet and embracing the police state? I suspect it's because people of our generation (I'm assuming) grew up…
> Anyone in tech and tech-adjacent industries knows the difference and that we shouldn't be calling LLMs AI. Are we reading the same Hacker News comments sections?
I think that's a silly argument, but even if we accept it at face value 1) VPN usage is difficult to detect and 2) bad actors are still going to use VPNs. This line of thinking removes privacy from good actors while…
The majority of comments seem to think this is not a big deal. Not surprising from this crowd, but disconcerting nonetheless.
Where does this line of thinking end? What couldn't be construed as part of the software?
"Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders."
It's just a domain name. The Onion taking it over does virtually nothing to impact Alex Jone's reach.
Not to mention Alex Jones is still up and running elsewhere spreading his nonsense and hawking his merch. So it's a cute gag, I guess, and gets the Sandy Hook families some money, but doesn't really change the status…
> “The goal for the families we represent has always been to prevent Alex Jones from being able to cause harm at scale, the way he did against them,” said Chris Mattei, the lawyer who argued the Connecticut families’…
Maybe it's just me but I don't see much humor in this. His brand and assets may have been liquidated, but he's still doing his show and it remains popular. The only people who really won in this saga are, as usual, the…
You should look into what's actually happening in other countries before blaming it on "the U.S. nanny state". The rest of the Anglosphere makes the United States look like a Libertarian utopia. I live in the United…
No. There are significant numbers of real people who genuinely support this type of thing. Dismissing it as "bots" or a "false narrative" leads to complacency that allows this stuff to pass unchallenged.
Name: PETER BRIGHT Register Number: 76309-054 Age: 45 Race: White Sex: Male Release Date: 08/11/2028 Located At: FCI Elkton
The problem is that this is too tedious for most people. There's a reason centralization is popular.
I meant that it's not a solution for users looking to avoid similar intrusions. When alternative platforms get big enough they'll be faced with the same legislative burdens. Of course there are decentralized options,…
The frustration aimed at Discord et al is largely misplaced. I'm sure these companies don't mind gathering extra data about their users, but the primary impetus for age verification is government legislation. Moving to…
Neither does the average politician, so where exactly is the impetus for changing the law going to come from?
I'm not sure there'd be much of a difference because the British people are broadly speaking a rather paternalistic society.
Even if that were the case this is still happening. The groundwork is being laid for Apple and Google to provide age signals for things like adult websites (and not just porn). It's not a big leap to see location…
Yes, this is part of living in a society.
I think ultimately we're headed for locked device attestation for age and physical location, and legislation like this is going to be a driving force. If that wasn't bad enough, I think most people are ultimately in…
> Yes, but they have the uncomfortable reality of having to police the results of it I'm not against adding some friction to certain behavior deemed undesirable by society, but at the end of the day people are going to…
> The court was right, but it kind of sucks for Utah in this case. They should have the right in some way to uphold their gambling laws. They still have the right to legislate, just not the technical capability to…
Good relationships won't do much when China puts the squeeze on Taiwan. Obviously there are other fabs in other countries, but the EU won't be the only market looking for alternatives.
>Microsoft even addressed the criticism that Windows was largely not possible to use from keyboard, and massively improved it starting with Win10. And then shit the bed completely with Windows 11. The (lack of) keyboard…
> Is anyone else as stunned as I am by how many posters on tech websites have suddenly gone full anti-free-internet and embracing the police state? I suspect it's because people of our generation (I'm assuming) grew up…
> Anyone in tech and tech-adjacent industries knows the difference and that we shouldn't be calling LLMs AI. Are we reading the same Hacker News comments sections?
I think that's a silly argument, but even if we accept it at face value 1) VPN usage is difficult to detect and 2) bad actors are still going to use VPNs. This line of thinking removes privacy from good actors while…
The majority of comments seem to think this is not a big deal. Not surprising from this crowd, but disconcerting nonetheless.
Where does this line of thinking end? What couldn't be construed as part of the software?
"Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders."
It's just a domain name. The Onion taking it over does virtually nothing to impact Alex Jone's reach.
Not to mention Alex Jones is still up and running elsewhere spreading his nonsense and hawking his merch. So it's a cute gag, I guess, and gets the Sandy Hook families some money, but doesn't really change the status…
> “The goal for the families we represent has always been to prevent Alex Jones from being able to cause harm at scale, the way he did against them,” said Chris Mattei, the lawyer who argued the Connecticut families’…
Maybe it's just me but I don't see much humor in this. His brand and assets may have been liquidated, but he's still doing his show and it remains popular. The only people who really won in this saga are, as usual, the…
You should look into what's actually happening in other countries before blaming it on "the U.S. nanny state". The rest of the Anglosphere makes the United States look like a Libertarian utopia. I live in the United…
No. There are significant numbers of real people who genuinely support this type of thing. Dismissing it as "bots" or a "false narrative" leads to complacency that allows this stuff to pass unchallenged.
Name: PETER BRIGHT Register Number: 76309-054 Age: 45 Race: White Sex: Male Release Date: 08/11/2028 Located At: FCI Elkton
The problem is that this is too tedious for most people. There's a reason centralization is popular.
I meant that it's not a solution for users looking to avoid similar intrusions. When alternative platforms get big enough they'll be faced with the same legislative burdens. Of course there are decentralized options,…
The frustration aimed at Discord et al is largely misplaced. I'm sure these companies don't mind gathering extra data about their users, but the primary impetus for age verification is government legislation. Moving to…
Neither does the average politician, so where exactly is the impetus for changing the law going to come from?
I'm not sure there'd be much of a difference because the British people are broadly speaking a rather paternalistic society.