Comment by pocksuppet
1 day ago
There is no surveillance in this law - please stop spreading FUD. Some other laws in other places, with similar stated purposes, mandate surveillance.
1 day ago
There is no surveillance in this law - please stop spreading FUD. Some other laws in other places, with similar stated purposes, mandate surveillance.
I'll say it again: the purpose of these laws as a whole is to surveil adults.
Even if this specific law isn't doing that right now, it's quite easy to see how it will eventually. Without surveillance, the law is ineffective. All you need to do is generate some moral outrage at how the children are supposedly bypassing the insecure system and bam, instant scope expansion.
Look at the metagame being played over the long term. It's got nothing to do with children and everything to do with control.
I do not see how adding an age checkbox in the user account creation page leads to mass surveillance.
This isn't enough! We can't trust the self-reported checkbox. The kids just install a system that always reports all accounts as 18+. We must make such systems illegal. How? I dunno, can't we make it so CPUs only run government signed code? Yeah, let's do that! Now the children will be safe!