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[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

“Child safety” has simply become the marketing department for a rent-seeking surveillance industry.

Damn ain't that the truth.

[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 14 points 1 day ago (3 children)

i want the 90s internet back, when only nerds were on it. it was way better back then.

[–] WhoathereBub@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Some of those nerds are how we got to where we are today.

[–] Pollo_Jack@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

So you're saying forbid the rich from using the internet?

[–] Thesilverpig@lemmy.ml 3 points 39 minutes ago

I think we should just forbid being rich

[–] RoddyStiggs@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 20 hours ago

Every time I say this I get downvoted to hell

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 1 points 20 hours ago

the music, the clubs, the clothes, the food

[–] fubarx@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Was looking at a used car online. Found a site that had option to 'reserve' the car until paperwork was done. Started innocuously with email and phone info, to text updates. Fine. Then it asked to verify info, with scans of driver's license.

Persona.

Noped right out.

[–] ChristchurchAsshole@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sounds like a scam. My friend recently looked for cars online, saw one he thought was good. Had a weird description "only 70,000km on the odometre but air conditioning is broken" like how? Then my friend paid $300 for a "viewing" of the car and the scammer made off with the money. Needless to say my friend isn't very smart and never was! Imagine paying just to see something. This is sadly what mental illness does to a person. Not the first time my friend was scammed either.

[–] EatMyPixelDust@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 19 hours ago

I had a friend that stupid. Had.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Agree but this does need to be explained to people who aren't in the know. These laws are currently being marketed as "put the power in parents hands" in various states left, right, and center.

Its a good bet when there seems to be widespread bipartisan push for restrictive laws that literally no one asked for, it's gonna be something bad. But you have to explain to mouthbreathers in the electorate why or this shit just gets rammed through.

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 12 points 1 day ago

There’s no explaining it to the public at large in our forums. We already know. Unless people suddenly watch a couple trusted news sources en masse and those news sources choose to explain, ignorance will rule.

But then that’s the entire point of fracturing information like this. Fake news. Don’t trust science. That’s woke, don’t listen. Etc.

[–] ThatGuyNamedZeus@feddit.org 14 points 1 day ago

"hiding inside" of it? No no, the whole point is surveillance with full KYC. With the end goal being digital ID and CBDC and social credit scores.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 day ago

Blog post by the people who found this: https://vmfunc.re/blog/persona

[–] ki9@lemmy.gf4.pw 11 points 1 day ago

Great article! Some writing cannot be accused of AI-generation... Because it's good.

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 13 points 1 day ago

Loyal Moses has been on about this. Apparently the bills require third party cloud storage of the information in addition to an online requirement (for logging in???), and continuous telemetry to in use apps on the desktop environment.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The Epstein class wants to reliably know who is (and therefore isn't) an adult on the internet.

[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They want to identify the boys from the humans. Partially for advertising.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They want to identify the girls. For grooming.

[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

It was a typo. Fixed.

[–] imacatnotaman@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I didn't have internet until the 90s when I started college anyways. It's gone way downhill with the barrier to entry being so slow. I'm fine going back to gopher, maybe some telnet BBSes, start getting more people to acquire LoRa mesh devices lol. I'll even go back to sending everyone paper checks instead of doing online banking.

[–] toadster@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Don't LoRa mesh devices have extremely low bandwidth?

[–] imacatnotaman@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

yeah, i’m retired and don’t need speed. i started with a 300 baud modem lol

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

I hear you do what you can, it is too late already but your effort is appreciated.

[–] HexaBack@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago

read part 2

[–] diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Holy fuck I got about 10 minutes into this can someone do a tldr

[–] Gwyntale@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago

No. Some things are important enough to fully read.