Comment by 🐑 zipsegv
Re: "What's going on with california and colorado age…"
@stack:
The idea of Gavin as president is actually more revolting/scary than Trump
I don't like Newsom one bit but, do you have any situational awareness? Trump is quite literally rounding up undesirables and sending them overseas to forced labor camps without any restraint. He is destroying any semblance of a social safety net the US once had. He collaborates with known techno-fascists.
That isn't to say I like Newsom—far from it. I don't like any politician. But to say that just because of some bullshit privacy-grabbing law that he's worse than Trump is an... interesting take.
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@norayr:
i suggest other law: what if we forbid to use proprietary software till the 30?
because it can harm, make young brains addicted, and get used to constant surveillance and control by random entities in pursue of profit.
Actually kind of based tbh. If I thought laws were actually a good thing then I'd probably support this.
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@lars_the_bear:
Sooner or later, though, on-line services are going to insist on ID.
The moment this happens, I'm just not going to use that service. Excluding things like banks which need my ID anyway, there's only like 2 proprietary web services I use (namely Discord and YouTube) and I'd probably be fine without them.
Mar 22 · 7 weeks ago
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If you look at his trainwreck California, the fraud and tax hell of the US, the place people can't leave fast enough, you may understand my statement.
As for Trump... Sending "undesirable" (actually, criminal) non-citizens (from prisons) home is the least of my issues with this administration.
Sending "undesirable" non-citizens home is the least of my issues with this admibistration.
how, in good faith, can you call yourself an "anarchist" and still think "citizenship" is a meaningful thing that wasn't invented to control people.
All I see is people being forcibly removed from their communities by the violent gang we call "ICE", oftentimes taken to camps with horrible conditions or to places they previously left due to it being extremely unsafe for them.
I've said before that I am a terrible anarchist.
No, I don't believe in borders and entitlements, but I have to live in this world, and have to share it with other people, including the majority who elected this president largely on this issue.
It would be wiser to accept the loss and regroup, and find an _electable_ candidate instead of throwing tantrums and trying to throw the chessboard into the air.
The damage done in terms of human trafficking and suffering in order to bring cheap labor into this country, and the desire of some states to not deport prisoners who are forced into free labor corporate work camps, is horrible. There is no good way to unwind it, and the propaganda machine protects the Empire, using well-meaning people.
🚀 lars_the_bear · Mar 22 at 18:28:
@zipsegv : "The moment this happens, I'm just not going to use that service."
That's always been my attitude, too. But what's going to happen when you need verifiable ID to do _anything_ on the Internet? Even a DNS lookup? Even Gemini?
My experience is that politicians, when thwarted, tend to react by implementing even stupider policies. Like (in the UK) trying to ban VPNs becasue people are using them to get around age verification.
@lars_the_bear yeah no, we're in agreement. these laws are really bad in general.
GrapheneOS is refusing to cooperate. See HN
— https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47479183
👻 darkghost · Mar 23 at 17:53:
OH NO now I won't be able to buy a GrapheneOS device in CO or CA!! Wait a minute.... I still can't buy a GrapheneOS device there now! I have to get a Pixel and pave it over!
Somehow I think TempleOS will not be complying either... Maybe it's time to listen to what God is saying.
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What's going on with california and colorado age verification? — Do they actually have anything to do with verification? Everyone is using the word verification, but any source that actually gets into what the bills require does not talk about verification. It seems to me that the laws are just about collecting age-based information, and using it to not show porn to minors. There seems to be no requirement to actually verify the information they collect. Am I completely misunderstanding what...