The People's Forum: we're headed down this route with the TPM chip, software attestation

and the requirement to use a Windows id to log in to Windows 11 for example. A diminishing group of people will use Linux but that will slowly be squeezed too and most distros will be forced to introduce the same features.

Microsoft, Apple, governments all want bullet proof KYC - it's coming - pretty soon everything you do on your PC or MAC will be analyzed, tied back to you, and reported back to various agencies if any "concerns" are raised.

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rather than an unlimited amount of software makers, then all software could refer to an inbuilt setting around ownership.

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the kids are more savvy on tech than the ministers trying to pass a functional law, and prohibition had never stopped anyone determined, ever.

better to go after the providers of social media financially until they actually take steps to prevent misinformation and do things that might actually protect kids.

of course that would suggest they actually wanted to protect people and it's not merely a thinly veiled mechanism for users having to provide ID to access services that those in charge deem inappropriate for people. y'know like trans healthcare or abortion services or whatever else is deemed socially inappropriate.