Here is a link to learn more about the bill.
It is also important to note this legislation also includes language for ongoing, real-time monitoring. Not just verification
Here is a summary from the link shared above:
Requires manufacturers of internet-enabled devices to conduct age assurance to determine a user's age category and provide all websites, online services, online applications and mobile applications on such user's internet-enabled device and/or application store manufactured by the covered manufacturer with a digital signal that such user is a covered minor as well as the age category of such covered minor via a real-time application programming interface (API).
I love the inclusion of the API acronym; all super serious sounding. Like these dumb pedophiles even know what an API is!
You are encouraged to have an opinion about this. It is obvious what is happening here.
Do you have the spine to be remembered?
We are at an epic turning point in human history. Those who rise to meet that standard are today's heroes.
The real world, filled with everyday people, needs individuals who embody a willingness to say "Get fucked!"
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It's okay to be new. What isn't okay is to sit on the sidelines in today's world.
You are alive today. Take full advantage of it.
Legislators have no idea how technical stuff works. Imagine imposing this requirement on a Raspberry Pi, which has no document scanner or webcam to scan your Government Approved ID or Unique Human Face. Either the device has to be mandated to include a camera or some other similar bullshit, or it doesn't have a way to scan your face or ID. So it would be noncompliant by default, but if you could mandate a camera is included, then you'd have to mandate that it requires the scan and gatekeeps the operation of the device without it, and so on... just a bunch of ridiculous bullshit.
What they'll do is make buying second hand as difficult as possible, then make you pay for your devices in a verified way where you are recognized. Every device will most likely have a fingerprint on it so if you connect to the internet through it, all that traffic is tied to you at a hardware level.
Please don't underestimate the people in these federal agencies. They might not seem like the ones pushing it, but they are absolutely carrying out the will of billionaires who think we deserve nothing. And the people working in these agencies are not dumb, they are smart and they are ruthless.
They are serving people who are determined to get their way. And only a massive, and threatening push back will stop this.
You think a Raspberry Pi is hard? Try an elevator.
It has a computer that likely runs the linux kernal, a user interface, the emergecy call feature probably uses VOIP and is likely internet connected, and it may even have hundreds of unique users per day!
You are still acting under the assumption that we will be allowed purchase our own hardware like a Raspberry Pi, or some stick of RAM to upgrade our desktop PC.
They want us on dumb terminals like in WallE, consuming the content they want us to see, and squashing the inconvenient truths they don’t like.
Does your little Blueberry cake or whatever have Microsoft SecureBoot Copilot Plus? No? It’s ILLEGAL and you can go to JAIL for having it! SURRENDER TO THE AI DRONE NOW.
The real problem is that I’m not being hyperbolic.
“Sir, do you have any Raspberry Pi’s in the vehicle?”
Every new car these days is a computer first, so don't worry, it'll already have all of your personal information if you're interested in driving it.
And classic cars with carburetors and naturally aspirated engines will be illegal too.
This. And with the mumblings of autonomous AI kill bots it would be next to nothing in a decade or so for them to detect non-compliant networked devices. Everything already tries to map your network. Imagine you have a degoogled phone and some robocop detects it and arrests you because you have a suspicious device.
The autonomous robot thing freaks me the fuck out. Imagine a cop that could access your phone and listen to your conversations, track you in real time and never get tired. If that happens it's game over. It's not happening this year, but in 5 years? With how much money they are dumping into the industry?
They don't care if the country collapses. They're designing the next one.
The thing about "autonomous AI" is that it isn't what the large, prominent "AI" companies are researching. The money is being dumped into LLM companies for the most part, and LLMs aren't a likely way to get fully autonomous robots.
I'm not saying that it isn't going to happen, especially because they exist somewhat already (drones and palantir). However, when people think "dumping money into the AI industry", most are thinking of OpenAI, Anthropic and the like, especially since that is actually where the majority of money (and power) is going.
I personally think 5 years is a stretch, but I hope the AI killbots come for me first if I'm wrong, because I wouldn't want to live on this planet anymore. Also, I'm not sure that this would be a thing in practice, since they could extract labor out of you instead of killing you with robots simply for having a non-registered network device.
If you are internet savvy you could be impressed into cyber attacks, as is common in many countries when criminals and pirates are identified, their intelligence agencies will bail them out to work for them. ie Russia, china, maybe the us already idk.
Well they can try to do that but it won't work. I already have at least 4 Raspberry Pis, and who knows how many other computers could be lurking around.
They'll just end up like any other form of draconian prohibition - black markets everywhere. Even my grandpa knew a bootlegger in small town USA where alcohol was illegal.
I'm pretty sure that's part of the point. Kill third party and DIY hardwares and softwares. Even if you could develope alternative tech you can't monetize it because it wouldn't meet regulation. The only option becomes hardware as a service, which you validate your age with the host and your pi just becomes virtualized hardware if it exists at all.
It's not just about survaliance. It's about crushing self-educators and putting the working class in a digital environment that is one-way and has no exits.
They're revolutionizing the internet and technology so you can only access what they want and how they want.
Big tech is using very sophisticated methods to lock us out.
You think they're dumb. But they know exactly what they're doing. Like they said in the image, these are pedophile run companies telling pedophile run governments how to collect biometric data about every single person using an internet connected device, which is essentially everybody at this point.
I mean, even high power desktops don't generally come WITH those devices.
I imagine this would be implemented for devices that come with that stuff, which already tells you how easy it will be for actual predators and criminals to avoid this shit while everyone else gets fucked.
Good news! They want to move PC to saas!
Technically a raspberry pi does not need to be an internet connected device but also consider,
Hold the lightbulb up to your face to verify your age please
I assume they'd probably just say you gotta either have a way to load it on-device (e.g. pre-record a video of your face and a photo of your ID, put on USB drive, plug into Pi), or have a way to wirelessly do so from another device, as long as the device you're verifying is able to connect to the internet, since otherwise age verification wouldn't really matter in the first place.
Don't worry, they'll find a way to make you give up your personal data no matter what!
So all this is supposed to be part of what lobbies do - provide subject matter input, recommendations, and direction to lawmakers, so that said lawmakers can make better laws. This protects the lobbies' interests because they aren't forced to do unreasonable shit just to comply with nonsense laws.
BUT Citizens United happened, and now lobbies are for funneling money to politicians so that they will produce laws that benefit you, as a company/org, and not the general interest.