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These days a computer is pretty much another lobe of your brain. What happens when we actually have computers embedded inside of us? Are they going to restrict access to our own cognition?
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There’s an episode of Black Mirror about exactly that and it was hella depressing. I think it starred Chris O’Dowd and Mya Rudolph, who are both usually really funny actors, but it was the opposite of funny.
words? Where we’re going to we don’t need words
imagine government regulating what kinds of feelings are allowed in mind ads
we’re screwed
These days a computer is pretty much another lobe of your brain.
That’s bad, you know that’s bad right?
I know where you’re coming from. I’d say it’s algorithm driven and platform centric consumption that’s bad. If things were more open, it’d be easier to use things like RSS readers to control your influences. The laws should be enforcing open standards, not closing things down.
The laws should be enforcing open standards, not closing things down.
The CA law does push for open standards.
Specifically a standard way for app stores to get the age range of users, the alternatives are:
- Bury heads in sand and let companies target kids
- UK/AUS style bans.
Realistically I think talking about RSS readers as a way to stop kids getting hooked on loot boxes is burying your head in the sand though.
It’s an open standard that could lead to tighter controls on devices in the future. That’s an extremely slippery slope. Wouldn’t it make more sense to require age verification for social media platforms and outlaw online gambling? Why deanonymize the devices themselves? I suspect it has nothing to do with protecting children.
If I had to speculate, I think the people in power are scared of how much on-device AI could empower the masses and they’re laying the groundwork to curtail it right now.
It’s an open standard that could lead to tighter controls on devices in the future.
You could say that about anything? Are you opposed to oauth/openid because it could lead to tighter controls in the future?
Why deanonymize the devices themselves?
Have you read the law? It doesn’t deanonymize anything.
Wouldn’t it make more sense to require age verification for social media platforms?
You say that like requiring Reddit to do actual age verification is better than your OS asking you to enter your age on your account.
and outlaw online gambling?
I think we should ban online gambling, but that’s also an actual ban instead of the open standards that YOU were asking for.
If the social media platforms are the problem, then why control the devices and not the social media platforms? Makes no sense unless there’s an ulterior motive.
What control do you think this law puts on devices?
I have tens of thousands of notes in my notes app. Please explain where I’m supposed to store that without a computer. Or am I supposed to just forget all that?
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It’s crazy how much a single state in a single country can potentially dictate how we use our own tech
After reading that it sure seems like they said a lot just to say that in the end they’ll probably end up complying.
Thank you for distilling that.
Last week in Cabo, Mexico, an adult friend thought it would be hilarious to add El Mencho to a picture of our dinner outing, text it to his parents, and tell them we met a new “friend”. He asked ChatGPT to add El Mencho to a photo. It refused. My under-13 child said “oh, I got this”, found a photo of El Mencho, asked ChatGPT to add the person from the photo to the dinner party photo and voilà, we’re enjoying drinks with El Mencho. Our friend’s parents asked what’s wrong with him. I was an impressed Dad.
This is indeed some very touching story, dinner with a leader of CJNG? At that point I would ask how the hell do you even know his name but
This article was so well-written that I was briefly surprised to encounter the term “nerfed” in the middle. I guess it’s common parlance in tech circles at this point.
This is going to end up in the Supreme Court as a First Amendment challenge because if code is speech, then age verification is code and therefore compelled speech by the government.
Anybody who complies with this is a fucking sheep. We need people who will stand up and strip age verification code out of any Linux operating system that dares to implement it. For example, if Ubuntu implements it, we need somebody to stand up, strip the verification code out of it, and then release it as Ubuntu free or whatever.
The only solution is to educate our children about life with digital abundance. Throwing them into the deep end when they’re 16 or 18 is too late. It’s a wonderful and weird world.
I’ve been seeing this or some variant of it, as if current protections are sufficient and we just need better parents. Yet having this provides another layer to teach and monitor.
Also the damage social media does for a 16 year old is far less than an 11 or 13 year old.
