California age verification bill backed by Google, Meta, OpenAI heads to Newsom
California age verification bill backed by Google, Meta, OpenAI heads to Newsom
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No one here seems to have read the article.
This bill will NOT require ID uploads or any official documents. It is simply mandating a setting that upon device setup that a parent must state the age of the user using the device. That's it.
Sounds more like a legal framework for the companies to absolve themselves of the responsibility of protecting kids if they happen to see adult content. They can point and say it's the parents fault for not inputting the age setting correctly.
It passed the assembly unanimously.
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Seems like the parents would have to be vetted to make that Proclamation and their identity connected to that IP for that to happen. So in reality this is a betrayal, in a way that makes it look like it's not a betrayal so people like you can say no it's not like that when it is.
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Nowhere in the bill text does it say that. Please cite your sources. The bill is less than a five minute read. https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB1043/2025
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Hollywood's concern feels like splitting hairs too, or software issues that are simple to overcome:
The Motion Picture Association, which represents major film studios including Amazon and Netflix, argues it would override their existing kids’ safety measures. MPA urged state lawmakers to reject Wicks’ bill this week in a letter, obtained by POLITICO, claiming device-based age checks may sow confusion; for example, if parents and kids had separate Netflix profiles under one account that’s logged in on multiple devices.
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(Sports announcer voice) He could do it folks! He could cut the knees off of his presidential aspirations right here!
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Or, he could put it through, and make friends enough with the terrifyingly oligarchic forces that run our society that he might all of a sudden become the "default choice" in the same way that Biden and Hilary were, and they might agree to kneecap anyone who tries to Bernie Sanders him. And we might have six more weeks of winter, so to speak.
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They do not see it like that, they think we have no choice and we'll have to accept the position our betters decide for us. And why wouldn't they? Three presidential elections in a row they have gotten the most unpopular worthless candidates possible in. And the same people that forced them are still in power in the party, still being shitty to the actual left that they cannot win elections without as they ratchet to plutocracy every election.
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Why not force people to identify themselves. Not like they'd go full fascist on us, right?
Right?
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Wo sind deine Papiere?
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The thing is, the NSA already has all of this info, this is a new database they will be collecting that lower level people will have access to, it will be vulnerable to hackers, foreign intelligence, business groups, politicians. First off they're going to use it to go after people protesting Israel Gauranfuckingteed.
But there is no bottom, there's no end to it. And not only is this cynical piece of shit Gavin Newsome going to sign this piece of shit, he will probably be forced as the Democratic nominee to lose in 2028. Running SD Kindler gentler status quo of plutocratic rot and zero real reform. Backed by armies of influence agents and Bots online being shitty to anybody that wants a solid reform opposition.
If this guy was presidential material, he would have stood up in 2024 and taken the nomination from the universally unpopular Kamala.
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This ain’t gonna work the way you think it will tech nazis
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That's it. I'm getting a land line and an answering machine. One of the really old ones with the tiny cassette.
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Damn I really need to stop supporting these companies
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This horrific piece of shit bill has just been casually chugging along
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I have a sneaking suspicion that if one cuts through all of the details, what one will find is that the thing that really sets this proposal apart, and has earned it Silicon Valley's support, is that it's complex and/or expensive enough that established megacorporate social media will be able to meet its provisions but new startups will not, so itwill serve as a barrier to entry to protect their oligopoly.
Absolutely. What's really frightening though is that companies will now have your real identity, so if the Regime doesn't like something you post they can send ICE to your house.
What I find really frightening is that there's no mention of doing what's best for the people of California.
And it opens the door to even more data collection
It will also force anyone with anonymous accounts it accounts using game info to out themselves.
This! ☝
Feel free to find where it says that...
Did you not understand the phrase " I have a snesking suspicion that" or did you just miss it entirely?