Here is a link to learn more about the bill.
It is also important to note this legislation also includes language for ongoing, real-time monitoring. Not just verification
Here is a summary from the link shared above:
Requires manufacturers of internet-enabled devices to conduct age assurance to determine a user's age category and provide all websites, online services, online applications and mobile applications on such user's internet-enabled device and/or application store manufactured by the covered manufacturer with a digital signal that such user is a covered minor as well as the age category of such covered minor via a real-time application programming interface (API).
I love the inclusion of the API acronym; all super serious sounding. Like these dumb pedophiles even know what an API is!
You are encouraged to have an opinion about this. It is obvious what is happening here.
Do you have the spine to be remembered?
We are at an epic turning point in human history. Those who rise to meet that standard are today's heroes.
The real world, filled with everyday people, needs individuals who embody a willingness to say "Get fucked!"
If this is your first time learning about heroics, look up information about the "hero's journey". Also known as the "monomyth".
It's okay to be new. What isn't okay is to sit on the sidelines in today's world.
You are alive today. Take full advantage of it.
We can build our own internet. With meshtastic. And closed networks.
I2P and tor are gonna thrive off of this era of oppressive government surveillance, I'm excited for that. Silver lining, people may actually advocate for and use private services.
I don’t think meshtastic will scale that well
It can.
Reticulum also exists now too, and supports the same hardware
Not really. Meshtastic simply does not support high enough bandwidth options.
As someone already pointed out, Reticulum is much better suited for this since it's more agnostic to the underlying method of transport.
Hmm, I barely had time to skim this and I'm certainly not naturally talented in understanding tech, but for anyone else interested (and so I recall to return to it later): https://reticulum.network/
Find in page returned one result for "reticulum," and it was yours. Sometimes everything doesn't federate for everyone at the same time.
Anyway my point wasn't that it can right now, just that necessity is the mother of invention/innovation. I'll look into reticulum at some point, I just finished vacuuming and mopping after work, and need to clean myself up. Thanks for mentioning it to me.
Meshtastic doesn't have the ability, ever, to be able to do more than rudimentary texts. The frequency bands it operates on simply won't be able to handle more than that, and if it ever became mainstream in any way, it certainly wouldn't be able to handle anything more than text.
Sure be awesome to have another way to text people, it just will never be an alternative to the internet or sending memes on a SM.
Mayb I refer to RFC-1149? We don't need to reinvent the wheel if a perfectly fine standardized protocol allready exists.
Yeah. And 99.9% of humanity will go on using McInternet, and whatever the fuck we do won't matter and they'll still control all of society and its direction.
Ah ye of little faith. Build it and they will come, if we act in concert.
that attitude got us in this mess. The internet was free before corporate interests and the series of eternal september esque events happening from '98 onward caused largely by accessibility. Whatever we come up with needs to be difficult enough to access so corporations can't turn everyone into "customers". It doesn't need to be so hard that only nerds can use, but it needs to have enough friction to require effort, thought, and interest of some kind to use
I'm like 99% sure that they've written off millennials as a total loss as a generation they can control and are grooming Gen alpha to be their little human slaves. The 'smart' tech guys decided that cyberpunk dystopia was inevitable and decided to make it themselves.