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Imagine if you pirated a bunch of movies, and then went to the cinema and bragged about it. That’s what Altman is doing there.

Gobbles!

Advertising doesn’t seem like a large enough lever. Here’s my take: I think the powers that be are preparing for the emerging non stop cluster-fuck that climate change is going to wreck. They are kneecapping the right to assemble and protest peacefully all over the world, implementing absolute widespread surveillance, despite it being unpopular, so they can track who is who and accessing what information online. We are already experiencing widespread global problems like massive migration due to economic, ecological and geopolitical deterioration just from increased heat, reduced fresh water levels, crop yields and people fighting over what’s left.

Yep, which from a system setup point of view makes a lot of sense. I’m glad law makers are thinking about computer system design even if the laws aren’t perfect out the gate. At least in this instance it isn’t some covert data collection exercise! To be honest I haven’t read the law in detail, but I doubt they’ve thought about things like automation, share accounts and other sysops concerns but it’s better than the past 30 years where lawmakers treat digital and the internet like some mystical black box that’ll sort itself out.

This feels like a non issue. “Age verification” is a big umbrella. Claiming that merely checking an entered birth date is the equivalent of uploading an ID is disingenuous and just fishing for clicks. Yes, there are tangible connections to other concerning privacy violations in this space… but come on. Steam asks you for your birth date before you watch an R18+ game trailer. I’ve been lying on that form for over twenty years, since before I was 18.

Anyone else getting Old El Paso taco vibes from the colour scheme?

I came here to say something similar. It’s not merely tech that’s to blame but the kind of tech we have today. Kids are being raised to be consumers of tech and tech services. They don’t have basic fundamentals that millenials had to learn to access porn on dialup.

That’s why they hate the yearly Pornhub report. IIRC there’s a pattern of greater interest in trans porn in all red states.