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This list is kind of ridiculous but - www.techaviv.com/bds "You cannot use Windows, MacOS, BSD or Linux since a number of Israeli software engineers are involved, patents and licenses included are paid to Israeli companies. DOS versions of the late 1980s should be fine in some cases."

I'm Canadian, I'm glad this won't affect me, as proven by the fact I get no say in this Because Americans NEVER do anything stupid that affects other countries without their consent, that's simply preposterous, where's Castle when you need him

There's got to be at least one liberal in New Jersey

www.house.gov/representati... Link to how to find your Representative

yknow if this comes to canada i might have to start contemplating suicide again.

I just want all these big corps in one room to TALK the "American" way if you catch my 💢💢💢💲💲💲

Everything is very stupid and I hate it.

Gross

"Hopefully" never solved anything. Call your representative and tell them to vote no on this.

Also an inroad to say ATMs or Point of Sale machines, these verification companies would have a legal duty to parse who is using the financial services without having to buy that data from someone

They really should focus on figuring out how to not start world war three before doing this

So are government officials, wherever they are and whatever they're doing, with whoever they're doing it with, also going to have to verify their IDs on any computer? Or are they going to be uniquely immune to all this? And then how long before that database leaks and causes a government panic?

disgusting

docs.google.com/document/d/1... I made a letter that anyone can use as a base or just use it to send to your reps. Please do so.

good god the person i trust most to stop this is Rand Paul. we're so screwed.

And the torches, the guillotines…

"talk" sure😜

This will be the end of anonymous Internet access in the USA; everything you do and say, where you go and what you do will be gathered and tracked. That is why so many new data centers are being built so quickly.

Question is if it's a good plan. Are they expecting everyone to just go buy new compatible hardware, during a time hardware prices are getting out of hand? To redo entire server farms that run off Linux? What's stopping someone from just spoofing the verification? And what of international servers?

Either way this shit sucks and I have no clue why people even entertained the idea. This should have been met with a lot of resistance but here we are

commies = people I don't like

Reminder that one of the co-sponsors is MAGA. Let that sink in.

I can't wait for future infrastructure to shut down because it runs on a headless operating system and according to this law, requires age verification to run, so it doesn't run.

imagine for a moment that several CEOs of the largest tech companies in the world feature prominently in the Epstein files. surely they can be trusted with verified age info

That's really creepy if I'm being honest

Fuck this law so much. Trying to force us onto corpo platforms.

Gotta age verify my smart fridge, and use my windows PC, because Arch Linux distros cannot pay for that kind of infastructure I cannot verbalize how much I hate this

This is just wrong, age restriction for operative systems? This is exactly like a 1984, no privacy, government just watching at you and big brother is there to watching every your step.

So everyone sane and tech capable will shift over to Linux. And if they build this into computer hardware at the firmware level, then people will use old hardware.

Oh ffs can the USA stop being a fascist surveillance state for five fucking minutes I'm so fucking exhausted

Why exactly is it the responsibility of operating system providers to monitor and regulate the population of technology users? (aka everyone) and further, report that information to the government? This guilty until proven innocent crap has to stop.

This is helpful. Not surprised my state has nothing. We can even have consistent accessibility to the Internet in population centers ...

Peter Thiel, data lakes, Palantir, DOGE, Elon… and by association JD Vance.

bsky.app/profile/apoc...

My Discord account is over a decade old. If they’re gonna insist that I potentially broke ToS to make my account before I was 8 years old and require age verification, they can feel free to argue with my empty, abandoned account when I move to another platform.

Coming soon: ageD

You wouldn’t be able to utilise ISP services. You’d try and access a network and get hit with an error and a link to purchase Windows.

Which means handing a fresh new tool for doxxing. Was an adult in the room when they came up with this?

bsky.app/profile/hatt...

democrats dont be useless challenge (never clear)

Absolutely - writing vague law text deserves hammer to the face. Dishonest people are always scheming with the fine print ;/

Heaven forbid parents actually be forced to... Parent

Honestly, maybe there's a silver lining. Stupid law gets passed, is impossible to follow, system collapses, people start being more aware that some laws just shouldn't be followed...

Think video makes a good point. Most people who don't care, aren't aware of the privacy aspects, because of the name "age verification" : youtu.be/Xa3-TkHBh90

So, I hear Meta datacenters and HQ are warwhouses

This is a foothold for worldwide authoritarian tech control

That - is not happening - HERE! 🍁 #ElbowsUp ! 🦾🦾🪖🍁

But in the two years between getting passed and getting ruled unconstitutional, Palantir will get looots of data.

👎🏻

But with the odds even more stacked against regular people. Could you imagine what evil empires of the past could have done with mass surveillance technology? Well, we are about to see for ourselves.

Fuck off. I bought my computer, no one needs to see my ID to let me use the thing I fucking bought. I also have to ask why computers are being regulated but guns aren't. Seems like the wrong priorities here

Even if these bills go through, its entirely unenforcable. California passed a similar bill and thus far pretty much nothing has happened. Curious why they even bother wasting time

Brb. Gotta show my passport to my smart thermostat.

Already written to my congressman about this one. All the billions of dollars they'll spend on this could be better spent paying parents a stipend and strengthening laws guaranteeing those parents adequate time to spend with their children.

what even is an "operating system provider"

Well bipartisanship my ass if you ask me

idk if true, but fearmongering X(dot)com accounts shared how Gates said he want everybody-identity by 2030 it is legalese - lawyerocracy: little wiggleroom - or, at least, pretend there is still some left...

if EU/UE does, is it justified, still?

Providing a secure way for websites to leverage digital identity services in order to obtain the age of the user without them entering any private info?

Like I'm sure the legislation is a dumpster fire but there's technically good ways to do it (but also yeah do *not* trust the US Government with my data even though they already have it all and gave it to a random doge contractor)

now i'm no cryptozoologist tbh this seems flawed because unlike say HTTPS, you're not making claims directly about a domain and a key being used to serve a website which for computers, which can be used by multiple people etc., doesn't seem so useful

if EU/UE does same - we can throw it above chair...

I was trying to think of a good analogy, the best I could come up with was - instead of having a bouncer/door man at the bar checking your age; they stand outside the door of your house, and you can't leave without an age check, because you might go to a bar.

i'm skeptical of that claim and i don't want them to do it in europe either, HTH. don't give them any ideas. this is a stupid thing to want

Thanks, Zucc.

it's for child safety just like the SAVE act is for voting integrity

That's not what your ID, facial scan, behavioral profile, fingerprint, and stool sample say.

removing every person who endorses this stuff from office is a fire alarm level risk at this point. they're just gonna keep trying to ram this shit through until one of them skates by, like that california bill

Let us say it yet again that IT NEVER WAS ABOUT PROTECTING ANYONE BUT PDFS N CRIMINALS and CONTROLLING EVERYTHING FUN

i know this has been a thing for a while and im late asking this but HOW do they plan on doing this? computers arent just personal, what about like, public library computers, or ATMs, or computers running like mcdonalds menu screens, whose age will those need to be verified with? what?

They're specifically talking about linux

Que

I know this got passed in California or some shit for windows (like they can even implement that well) but god is this some of the most pointless shit ever

How about *this* bill, Congress: If you're old as shit and you're nine kinds of psychopathic and brain damaged beyond repair, you're disqualified from running for Congress.

WHAT.

Booooooooooo

I swear America has done nothing but make my life worse and I dont even live there Can yall just stop?

come and take it feds

These people don't understand that this would require age verification for ATM machines, TVs, fridges, cars, game consoles, phones, self-serve kiosks, servers, electronic billboards, etc. Can you imagine the catch 22 of having to age-verify a web server in order to use it to verify user ages?

Because we can't have children using notepad or file explorer unsupervised. Just kidding, this is for selling the information of adult users and probably also targetted advertising.

They should ask California about how that's going.

The only way Linux can comply - if a distro even chooses to - is by providing a user-entered text field for applications to query. Which means DROP TABLE users; and :(){ :|:& };: Are valid ages. Query this, jackasses

People are going to blow up buildings if they actually let this through. Call your rep now because things are going to get UGLY.

Oh my fucking god this is so bad. This is soo so bad. And we can't even do anything about it because WE AREN'T FUCKING AMERICAN.

Glad someone is still keeping up the fight against this

What the actual fuck?

I will stop using linux when they arrest me and not a moment sooner

wheeeeee another round of this

Usually I stay silent but this kind of invasive BS is not okay. Needs to be stopped right now.

The fuck???

Y'know what i say to them?

How do I upload my ID to my thermostat? It's getting cold in here. Help!

I would be ok with an OS having a parental control option. Most do already but it should be a choice and not require ID. For those calling reps, make sure to stress this is a nanny state law. This is a big button for some lawmakers.