System76 on Age Verification Laws [EN]
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The future is looking bleak. It’s asinine that these laws that strip away privacy are moving so quickly, meanwhile pedophiles, abusers, rapists, and lawbreakers run amok. It’s clear that no one passing these laws actually cares about children but rather surveillance as a whole, but what can ACTUALLY be done about it?
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The child can install a virtual machine, create an account on the virtual machine and set the age to 18 or over. It’s a similar technique to installing a VPN to get around the Great Firewall of China (just consider that for a moment).
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The future is looking bleak. It’s asinine that these laws that strip away privacy are moving so quickly, meanwhile pedophiles, abusers, rapists, and lawbreakers run amok. It’s clear that no one passing these laws actually cares about children but rather surveillance as a whole, but what can ACTUALLY be done about it?
Yes, the lawmakers are writing laws as if all devices are built by either Apple or Google, and as a result we risk ending up in a situation exactly like that. They are setting us up on a path where encryption is no longer a technology that we can use to protect ourselves, but a technology which the american big tech companies use to prevent us from changing the behavior of the devices that we supposedly own. In the beginning with the goal of preventing children from accessing social media, but eventually with the goal of making it impossible to turn off surveillance. Meanwhile Google will happily comply: a nice side effect for them is that it also becomes impossible to block ads, and the narrative becomes that it is the lawmakers that are forcing their hand.
