Can’t have the IA getting it for free when Google is paying for it. Reddit management is a bunch of morons.

Why does it have to be one or the other? I both read books and watch YT videos nearly every day.

Yep, and every one of them already complies with age verification laws so as new laws are added they’re going to comply with those as well. There are very few web admins / sysops / site operators out there who are willing, or even able, to buck these kinds of national laws.

Many fediverse hosts will make an effort to stay open by shifting their servers to countries that are out of reach of verification and law enforcement but that will only last so long.

Why do you assume that the old school forums are going to get exempted? They are going to get on the bus or get run over by it just like everywhere else. Government has already proven that they can, and will, regulate those forums.

Unless you are one of the extreme privacy people, like deep into freakaziod territory, the folks who build tracking / id systems would maybe need an afternoon to go from your Lemmy username to your home address and underwear size.

decentralized apps, fediverse

Those apps and / or the fediverse itself would get sued into the ground and shut down one app or server at a time. There’s nothing stopping any Governments authorities from going after servers inside their borders and there’s nothing stopping them from “harmonizing” identity verification restrictions among other countries. They’ve already done it once with Intellectual Property law.

This push to de-anonymize the Internet isn’t new either. Microsoft started this back in the oughts with their Passport / Digital-ID program. Google and Meta, along with others, long ago launched their own versions and it’s why you can sign into so many websites with a Google or Facebook account.

It’s generally referred to as IdP and now that the Internet has been fully corporatized, with minor holdouts, you can bet your bippy that the days of anonymous access are ending.

You made me do this, capitalism.

This is a problem with Government not an economic system. It’s about control, not dollars, pounds, or yuan.

You don’t need A/C.

Eh, it’s REALLY nice to have right now with daytime highs in the upper 90s. It’s even nicer when it’s both hot and humid.

Source: I live in Wyoming.

So do I.

Blocking vpns is tricky in a western society because so many companies cannot function without them.

Thank you for this. I know some people won’t appreciate it but not every community needs to be a full time political outlet.

I don’t want to install “word webview” on a server in order to look at a large log file or peruse some XML.

Good! I want to see Gaetz go down.

IMCO people claiming real recordings are AI fakes is going to be a bigger problem than actual fakes.

That’s a pretty bold claim considering we’ve already seen at least one fake impacting the US primary elections.

This should be in the dictionary under the phrase “Cutting off your nose to spite your face.”

So I’m curious, what are you charging the parents with in this case or this one or this one.

You gonna send that second kids mom to jail because her Son stole a gun and killed his father? Do you envision her prison sentence happening during or after she heals up from her own gunshot wounds?

I’m not trying to be jerk here, I’m trying to expose the need for nuance in these kinds of discussion. Not everything is as simple as “Lock 'em Up!”.

What would a safe change in this specific case?

Theft. Any time you aren’t home your house turns into an unattended armory for thieves.

Why did it upset you?

Because it’s unnecessary.

This and this are both failures; gendering the failing parent simply isn’t required.

Both are a failure to prevent a child from accessing a firearm.

Yes but they are only similar in the broadest sense; a child grabbing a loaded gun out of Mom’s Purse or Dad’s Nightstand are very different scenarios from a teen who destructively opens a gun safe or steals the key to it.

Safe storage for firearms is desirable but requiring the prosecution of those who made a good faith effort and failed is not.

The chubby electron guy is great!

Why are you sleeping on the ground? Using a cot will change the whole experience!