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By the way, the current age verification madness is a coordinated lobbying campaign by Meta
To avoid any responsibility for them not moderating.
It's more about ad revenue. Advertisers don't want to pay for bots to read their ads.
Ads were always a terrible way to fund the internet.
Not to rant, but some things are so cheap or so important (or both) that it's foolish not to operate off an endowment system. The internet, journalism, science -- the information foundation of the modern world has to be independent for a stable society. Like, yeah, capitalism bad and establishing an initial investment is asking a lot of people's finances, but surely operating independently is worth it?
One more reason for me to fucking hate Zuckerberg.
Add it to the pile at this point...
Zuckerberg and Thiel.
Source?
Can someone eli5 the idea? I don't get it, even after reading the page. But now I want one.
They're breaking evil age verification laws on purpose as civil disobedience with cheap hardware
OK, the disobedience was the part I didn't get. Thank you!
Insofar as part availability isn't insurmountably impacted this also constitutes functional resistance to all manor of censorship and surveillance. If you can code, test on one of these
I can, but I probably won't, because my backlog is full and overflowing. But it is cheap... damn.
It's protestware, which is great.
I agree, but now I am torn because I'm protesting the US as a whole right now.
California is adding a requirement for age verification for operating systems (or something like that) so each one of these violates that law by booting into linux.
Not just California. Several other US states are considering (or will be rolling out) similar laws, and Brazil's version has already rolled out this month.
This was the part I got. But I wondered how that would help?
Brilliant. I'd like to see how the very uninformed legislators deal with this. They will have to publically re-argue first principles
Wait are they planing to fine non-age verification compliant devices?
AB 1043 passed the California Assembly 76–0 and the Senate 38–0. Not a single legislator voted against it.
1798.503. (a) A person that violates this title shall be subject to an injunction and liable for a civil penalty of not more than two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) per affected child for each negligent violation or not more than seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500) per affected child for each intentional violation
This device does not collect, store, or transmit the age of its user. This is intentional.
Is there any reason to believe they won't want to make an example out of intentional violators?
They probably will, but I think the intentional violators are intending to make a spectacle out of it. I suspect California Voters will have it repealed in short order, but in the mean time the world should probably ruthlessly mock and isolate them.
I have serious doubts about any voters, anywhere in the world, repealing any laws like this:
This kind of act of insubordination, the way it is framed, I'm afraid is likely to meet the opposition of most people.
I don't know, maybe not looking stupid
In whose eyes? They have lobbyists backing them, and a general public who doesn't know any better, or care to know.
Exposing the stupidity is a great goal, running headfirst into the "Who will think of the children!1!!" wall... not so much.
Brilliant! 💪
Why can't rest of the world just cancel California.
What in leftist infighting hell is even happening in this comment section?