Here is a link to learn more about the bill.
It is also important to note this legislation also includes language for ongoing, real-time monitoring. Not just verification
Here is a summary from the link shared above:
Requires manufacturers of internet-enabled devices to conduct age assurance to determine a user's age category and provide all websites, online services, online applications and mobile applications on such user's internet-enabled device and/or application store manufactured by the covered manufacturer with a digital signal that such user is a covered minor as well as the age category of such covered minor via a real-time application programming interface (API).
I love the inclusion of the API acronym; all super serious sounding. Like these dumb pedophiles even know what an API is!
You are encouraged to have an opinion about this. It is obvious what is happening here.
Do you have the spine to be remembered?
We are at an epic turning point in human history. Those who rise to meet that standard are today's heroes.
The real world, filled with everyday people, needs individuals who embody a willingness to say "Get fucked!"
If this is your first time learning about heroics, look up information about the "hero's journey". Also known as the "monomyth".
It's okay to be new. What isn't okay is to sit on the sidelines in today's world.
You are alive today. Take full advantage of it.
You're right, we don't live in a utopia, so do you actually think the governments (since all governments seem to be doing some form of this) will not simply allow bots (bots are from companies, and neo-liberal governments will twist themselves into an inter dimensional pretzel if it pleases megacorps), foreign intervention (having a valid foreign ID doesn't atop people from astroturfing), etc?
They have more than a dozen ways to combat misinformation already and they actively choose not to use any of them at all because it meets their goals.
Do you think normal people will be able to access the IDs of anyone to see if they are astroturfing and spreading misinformation? Literally a 0.001% chance of that happening.
Literally the only thing that will happen is that normal people get tracked to hell and back and when the authoritarians manufacture enough consent to take power, it will immediately be used to dispose of their dissidents. Only bad comes from this because the democratic or socialist cleaning governments don't have the spine to actually use it against the billionaire class.
Cool, you didn't read my subcomment about a solution.
Yea, I'm going to trust my government over a external government pining for the same control and information, but/and also has malicious purposes.
The difference is that the sites are currently on Commercial TLDs. We either regulate all commercial TLDs in and outside the Nations domain or we regulate specific TLDs that live within the Nations grounds, on the Nations servers. How to regulate commercial websites has always been a sticky point because where is the line between what the entity can do with their website and what they cannot do? What about sites that transcend international bounds, whose jurisdiction is that?
Have a distinction between a Nations external websites and internal websites at least allows "easy" regulation while keeping it opt-in.
No, this is a system issue, not a user issue.
Any country could already do this if they wanted to. They can strongarm ISPs, website admins, and OS manufacturers. This is especially true for countries that hold the keys to their systems like China, Russia, and the U.S.
How about answering one of my questions?
What do we do about other countries using social media and our mass access to open internet to sway opinions, elections, and sow distrust to erode democracy and undermine that countries government? Assume that long-term goals like education is not an option due to it being long-term.