Please remove the link to the youtube channel at the very bottom. It sdoes not seem to have anything to do with the rest of your post and looks like a conspiracy theory-mill. Otherwise I will have to remove the entire post, wich I'd prefer not to do.

(Sorry, I'm from Finland, I don't know much about the finer points.)

Well this is good. The folks in New York don't need to worry about mega noisy AI data centers in their backyards anymore!

Or any other kind of datacenters!

Or internet infrastructure as a whole!

ISPs will just have to chuck their gear in the Atlantic! No way they'll implement this shit for every single piece of gear. Because they know users won't put up with authorising themselves at every network hop through NY.

Let me quote a joke IT security exam from the late 1990s:

"Your computer has just received a packet from the network. What do you do? Do you need a sledgehammer or is a smaller hammer enough?"

This is what is ahead. Don't give in!

Any info about who is pushing this so hard right now? It seems too much of a coincidence that this seems to be pushed everywhere around the world atm. Makes me think it's not the usual incompentent police and secret service combination

I don't think I want the Epstein class to have an easy way to determine who is (and therefore also isn't) an adult over the internet.

I’m getting tempted to go off the grid and just make do with meshstatic or such.

I refuse to live in a big brother world.

Her face was captured in perfectly hilarious state. LMAO.

My mood gets obliterated whenever I open Lemmy nowadays.

Any device? So my router? My pet feeder? My raspberry pis?

Australian government over here taking notes...

its all to feed the surveillance obsessed PALINITIR that thiel has been hawking at govts about. it isnt a coincidence he started coming out of the woodwork and talks about it, when he is always very secretive from the media.

You better be using Linux if you want to have any control about the software running on your machine whatsoever.

Maybe get rid of all the child molesters we fucking already know about if you want to protect kids you fucking assholes.

By design. Won't someone please think of the children? That's how we get you!

Internet enabled device? So Ethernet, wifi, and cellular modules? Network switches? Routers? Modem? What does it even mean?

Maybe we just rename the Internet, problem solved. My computer is now milfnet enabled, idk what "Internet" is, I connect to the milfnet.

So, like, my internet-connected lightbulbs would have to verify my age, too?

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.