cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1230279/us-house-passes-the-kids-internet-and-digital-safety-kids-act-which-would-basically-requ
This bill requires specified online platforms to establish safeguards for minors. The safeguards include (1) limiting access to specified sexual material, (2) providing parental controls on social media and online video game platforms, and (3) requiring artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots to disclose certain information to users who are minors.
First, publicly available online platforms on which more than one-third of the content is considered sexual material harmful to minors under the bill must adopt technology to identify minors and prevent them from accessing such material.
Next, social media platforms must (1) implement default settings for minors that limit compulsive usage features and the ability of other users to communicate with minors, and (2) provide tools for parents to manage the privacy and account settings of a minor. Social media platforms may not allow ephemeral messaging features for minors.
The bill also requires online video game platforms to provide tools that allow parents to (1) limit communication between a minor and other users of the platform, and (2) restrict purchases by a minor on the platform.
Further, providers of AI chatbots must disclose to users who are minors (1) that the chatbot is an AI system and not a human, and (2) suicide and crisis intervention hotline information.
Finally, the bill requires specified studies and reports about the effects of social media platforms on minors and provides for enforcement of the bill’s requirements by the Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general.
internet was fun while it lasted; new internet is ass anyway
Fortunately thanks to VPNs I’m Canadian. I can just keep changing the settings the more and more countries implement dumb laws.
Now I’m sure some politicians have come up with a bright idea of banning VPNs and I’m just looking forward to the drama when that idea is tabled.
Democrats are smiling foxes.
Surprised to see Hirono on there, thats disappointing. But Schumer, Slotkin, Fetterman, Kloubachar, Whitehouse, Warner … the usual band of traitorous republican-lite DNC idiots is no big surprise. Thanks for the link.
Rotating villains.
They said they take away the liberties of young people - they took away the liberties of all people.
At this point they’re the ones creating false premises and the people dont have any real way of challenging that.
Should we just share memes and titties outside since the normies moved online and fucked it up?
Chat, we’re cooked.
[Child detected… blocking traffic]
yeah, good luck with that. I’ll just go read a book under a tree at that point. The internet can just be a bunch of bots shitposting to each other. The day I have to have ID to use the internet is the day I log off for good.
This is only for the clearnet, the darknets don’t have this. Maybe most people will go to darknets. Of course due to being unregulated it has all kinds of disturbing stuff.
the darknets don’t have this.
- …Yet. Surely that’s the next destruction target, though.
Its been over a decade since i last sat in a hammock and read a book. Kinda excited for the internet to die now tbh.
With the internet dead, you get the benefit of getting information exclusively from Oligarch Approved media outlets!
The chains are starting to break, we’re almost free!
The reason they want age verification isn’t to protect the kids. It’s to verify the entity making a request is a real person and not a bot so they can charge more for the ad space.
Also to track what everyone does on the internet so it can be used against them.
That’s what the government wants and happens to align with industry
Yep why do you think Facebook is behind most of these bills.
The ultimate reason is surveillance state, and Trotsky deserves exhumation and incineration for his treachery of the working class, of which his despicable list is but a foreboding symbol.
Tech companies used to push back on stuff like this, but now that they need to fix the ad market they’re fine with the surveillance.
You know you can do both right now…go read a book on the internet under a tree. In fact, I recommend reading Brave New World specifically. It’ll be a good time (no sarcasm).
Better get to that quick. Before we move to burn all the rest of the books.
Underneath a chestnut tree?
This title may be cited as the Shielding Children’s Retinas from Egregious Exposure on the Net Act or the SCREEN Act.
Oh wow, they really love their acronyms!
Or the ‘Killing Internet Dissent and Speech’ Act. KOSA is the ‘Killing Online Speech Act.’
We’re going to PROTECT the CHILDREN by
PROSECUTING Jeffrey Epstein’s CO Conspirators!GIVING Jeffrey Epstein’s CO Conspirators ACCESS to your Children!Now they don’t have to wait for you to put your daughter into modeling or beauty contest. They can access her right through your Wi-Fi.
👆
While I disagree with the premise of the bill, I only take issue, when it comes to application and enforcement, with sec 103 not explicitly stating what is stated in other sections that the verification method shouldn’t be based off of government Id. However, saying that, I think that if it were possible I would be okay with this legislation, but I cannot fathom a way in which you verify someone’s age without using government id, considering that the only proofs of age as far as I am concerned is birth certificate and the documents that are based off of it.
Playboy about to make a comeback
Its Schumers bill, so it’ll be about crushing any opinions that oppose the zionists and related big business.
Secret smut stash in the woods is about to be a thing again.
Looking forward to the Epstein class vetoing this when they realize they can’t watch their preferred type of porn any more
They go to private mansions for child trafficking
The Epstein class desperately wants this. They can get around it easily, and this way anything bad you say about them can be tied directly to your identity. This will never catch a rich person, it’s about persecuting dissenters who threaten their power.
Its not like they could just create a company that collects almost every child’s image through the years which can then be tied directly to parents addresses anyway… /s
I wouldn’t be surprised if the Epstein Class uses this to find “product” for their islands.
This is such bullshit. If they really cared about the well-being of children, they’d make sure they had free healthcare, free daycare, and free college/trade school.
This is ONLY about connecting our identities with our online activity. They just put a bunch of people in prison for DECADES for possessing writings that were “anti-government,” so that allowed them to be classified as ANTIFA terrorists. This will allow them to do that with ANYONE who posts something they don’t like.
Just because these parasites claim to have a righteous rationalization for this, doesn’t mean we have to accept it. We KNOW they are lying, and the real reason is to control the adults of this country, not the children.
A lifetime of invasive surveillance is far more damaging to society, than kids discovering that men and women have different genitalia.
I wonder if it’ll ever be feasible to do some kind of mass, federated mesh networking to cut out the ISPs altogether.
Meshtastic? LoRa?
Or do you mean something like VPN tunneling?
Probably something more like VPN tunneling. The web we have today, but without having to subscribe to an ISP to connect to peers outside your LAN.
Going to be hard since the hardware sitting between all those wires cost money to run and… that’s pretty much what ISPs get paid do. They’re assholes who shouldn’t have a say in what goes through those connections but their job isn’t redundant, someone has to do it to maintain those connections.
Yup, that’s why I’m hoping wireless meshing technologies improve to a point that we can start to replicate things
Then you’re just going to have the FCC regulating the high-throughput bandwidths until you’re left with the unregulated ones for consumers… like LoRa… and Meshtastic lol.
And while those are cool and all, they have sever limitations due to the frequencies they use and can not scale past a hobbiest load.
If we want what we consider a “full featured” internet alternative, it will have to be built as a layer on top of the existing internet. Similar to the dark web, it’ll be sort of a grey web where tech savvy people convene and don’t cause enough fuss to be a target for crackdown. So long as encryption remains legal there are no major barriers. If we lose that it becomes much more difficult.
Ohh that would be fantastic!
For now I guess I2P can/will help
WHAT THE FUCK. Fuck my representative fucking hell
