It's depressing how few people in the free software space seem to be aware of and understand the implications of California's GunCAD lawsuit
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10It's just another tentacle of the ongoing push to ban general purpose computing for the masses
Oh, and Colorado is considering a bill to require operating systems to verify users' ages in a way that can't be tampered with
I give it until 2030 at the latest that we'll see a draft of a TLS specification with a client identity/age verification mechanism that makes it impossible to interact with the modern web without associating your legal ID with every request
@scathach what do we do about this? Like, say this happens, what can one do to remain anonymously in contact with people online, engage in piracy, etc?
@mirq As long as open sores software exists and can be ran on arbitrary hardware there will be a free underbelly
I expect fedi and piracy sites will continue to thrive and all sysadmins who care about privacy would disable ID verification
I expect fedi and piracy sites will continue to thrive and all sysadmins who care about privacy would disable ID verification
@prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer @scathach@stereophonic.space @mirq@tsogol.tsiran.org sometimes i wonder if tech is doomed and trying to keep the meme going is like trying to keep the ska scene alive, it's just going to die. i am not sure what could really replace it, maybe the maker/radio community could force people get back out into the real world, and wouldn't be nearly as dynamic without the power laws of the internet's connections. but i feel like things will become impossible eventually unless we migrate to a new substrate
@shibao @scathach @prettygood this is how i feel and why i was asking what can be done
i really hope that there is something that someone much much smarter than me can figure out to keep this going.
the Internet is such an amazing, impossible, beautiful thing. decrepit power-hungry pedophiles shouldn't be able to take it away from us entirely /:
i really hope that there is something that someone much much smarter than me can figure out to keep this going.
the Internet is such an amazing, impossible, beautiful thing. decrepit power-hungry pedophiles shouldn't be able to take it away from us entirely /:
@mirq @shibao @prettygood @scathach people are stubborn and resistant, but the issue will always be inertia, how many end up just throwing the towel and just going on with what happens? The extremeness of this could backfire and make people (even normals) care about stuff for real this time so maybe...
@mischievoustomato @shibao @prettygood @scathach
>The extremeness of this could backfire and make people (even normals) care about stuff for real this time so maybe...
do you talk to normies? they don't see an issue whatsoever, or even buy into it
nobody cares about their data
when equifax leaked 150m people's sensitive data, their execs should have been dragged through the streets and beaten. instead, nothing of value happened. like maybe a 500m settlement? that's what, like, $3 per person after lawyer fees? lol
if/when the pedophiles/glowies finish taking away everyone's online freedom, there will only be outrage from greasy outsiders like us, and the world will move on
>The extremeness of this could backfire and make people (even normals) care about stuff for real this time so maybe...
do you talk to normies? they don't see an issue whatsoever, or even buy into it
nobody cares about their data
when equifax leaked 150m people's sensitive data, their execs should have been dragged through the streets and beaten. instead, nothing of value happened. like maybe a 500m settlement? that's what, like, $3 per person after lawyer fees? lol
if/when the pedophiles/glowies finish taking away everyone's online freedom, there will only be outrage from greasy outsiders like us, and the world will move on
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