Comment on System76 on Age Verification Laws

• PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  There is no benefit.

  This is obvious hyperbole is you know it. Kids are stupid and vulnerable, and measures to protect them aren’t useless. That said, I am open to the idea that this law isn’t worth the cost. Basically every other age verification law (esspecially those based on use ID or AI) is very clearly not. I just haven’t seen a compelling argument as to why this one isn’t.

  You can’t glibly assert that people can just lie, so it’s not a big deal - and then pretend it’ll do the thing it’s for. Which again, is a bad idea anyway, which this approach would not achieve, if it even worked. It’s fractally stupid. It is dangerous bullshit, at every scale.

  Okay, but why? You keep repeating that its dangerous, limits freedoms, and causes privacy issues, but so far, the only argument I’ve seen is that it can help kids identity themselves, but given that its handled locally and is unreliable, I don’t see this being usable on any meaningful scale. Setting up a, “free candy” website or app is going to be way less effective and way more dangerous than just creating a Roblox account. Is there something I’m missing?

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  • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Companies shouldn’t even be allowed to demand more than a username and password, on any machine I could pick up and throw. Making anything beyond that a legal requirement is intolerable, in itself. My age is not this object’s business. It sure isn’t this website’s business.

    Stop excusing these intrusions against adult life, for the sake of children who will bypass them anyway. You know they will. You use the flimsiness of this alleged protection as an excuse for enabling it. There is literally no benefit if it doesn’t fucking work. Even pretending the immediate goal is something you should want - this won’t do that.

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    • PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Companies shouldn’t even be allowed to demand more than a username and password, on any machine I could pick up and throw. Making anything beyond that a legal requirement is intolerable, in itself. My age is not this object’s business. It sure isn’t this website’s business.

      Stop excusing these intrusions against adult life, for the sake of children who will bypass them anyway. You know they will. You use the flimsiness of this alleged protection as an excuse for enabling it. There is literally no benefit if it doesn’t fucking work. Even pretending the immediate goal is something you should want - this won’t do that.

      I do know they will. The whole reason I’m even okay idea is because it is completely optional for the user. I don’t see how it’ll impact adult life. That is why I’m so confused at the backlash. Its asking for an option to increase user control and user choice over their experience. Hell, from my understanding, this would provide a means for users to make it actually illegal to collect any user data, but I need to re-read the CCPA to confirm this. It seems that the benifits of user choice provided by this option far outweight the loss of having one more fingerprinting metric - nonetheless one that is illegal to share.

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      • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        If I had to take a photo of my genitals to sign into my own computer, promises against storage or sharing are not addressing my complaints about privacy. Asking my age is a lot less personal - but it’s still information about me, which this object does not need.

        ‘I’m only okay with this idea because I know it won’t work’ is, just, why are we even talking? What is the function of an argument when you’re not listening to yourself?

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