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| 2:02p |
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| 2:02p |
Online tech execs' liable when too-young viewers are harmed, UK
The
UK's new online identification requirement will effectively
require all discussion platforms and search engines to verify the age of each user.
The obvious way to do that is a repressive and
tyrannical way: by making each user show government photo ID.
I reject commercial communications platforms, because they already
deny users' freedom in various ways &msdash; instance, by demanding to
identify the user and/or running their code in the user's computer.
However, there are commercial search engines that currently do nothing
wrong to the user. Will this law make them all engage in repression?
Does the age verification requirement apply to search engines?
GNU Taler can be used to give people a way to verify their ages to
a web site without giving the site any way to identify them. But this
is not entirely finished yet.
The _goals_ of this bill mostly seem valid to me; indeed, they may not
go far enough. For instance, TikTok's practices seem to reduce
teenagers' attention spans; should those practices be banned? I am
not sure. However, the internet is a threat to democracy if tracks
what people do and where they go.
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| 2:02p |
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| 2:02p |
Protestors hunted, captured, China
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| 2:02p |
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| 2:02p |
Political terror, NM House candidate
A Republican election denialist, who was defeated in the election in
November,
organized a campaign of drive-by shootings at the homes
of
the region's main Democratic officials.
By luck, nobody in the homes was hit. That Republican probably won't
be allowed another chance.
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| 2:02p |
Right-wing deregulation
Right-wing politicians demand deregulation of many industrial
activities, including
contruction, to "eliminate red tape." However,
the regulations were adopted to save the people's lives,
and
deregulation often leads to deadly accidents.
Building codes in the UK, and especially in London, are an excellent,
terrible example.
The end result is that deregulation benefits businesses (that do or
invest in the activities that have been deregulated), while the harm
tends to fall on poor people, such as the residents of danger-prone
buildings, the inhabitants of "cancer alley",
and the drivers that work for Uber.
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| 2:02p |
Urgent: Billionaire's Minimum Income Tax
US citizens: phone your congresscritter and ask per to pass
the Billionaire's Minimum Income Tax.
The White House comments lines are
+1-202-456-1111
and (TTY/TDD) +1-202-456-6213.
If you phone, please spread the word!
It would ensure that every household worth over $100 million is paying
an effective tax rate of at least 20% on their total income each year.
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| 2:02p |
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| 2:02p |
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| 2:17p |
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| 2:17p |
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| 2:17p |
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| 2:47p |
Online tech execs liable when too-young viewers are harmed, UK
The
UK's new online identification requirement will effectively
require all discussion platforms and search engines to verify the age of each user.
The obvious way to do that is a repressive and
tyrannical way: by making each user show government photo ID.
I reject commercial communications platforms, because they already
deny users' freedom in various ways — instance, by demanding to
identify the user and/or running their code in the user's computer.
However, there are commercial search engines that currently do nothing
wrong to the user. Will this law make them all engage in repression?
Does the age verification requirement apply to search engines?
GNU Taler can be used to give people a way to verify their ages to
a web site without giving the site any way to identify them. But this
is not entirely finished yet.
The goals of this bill mostly seem valid to me; indeed, they may not
go far enough. For instance, TikTok's practices seem to reduce
teenagers' attention spans; should those practices be banned? I am
not sure. However, the internet is a threat to democracy if tracks
what people do and where they go.
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| 3:02p |
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| 3:02p |
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| 3:02p |
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| 3:02p |
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| 3:02p |
Political terror, NM House candidate
A Republican election denialist, who was defeated in the election in
November,
organized a campaign of drive-by shootings at the homes
of
the region's main Democratic officials.
By luck, nobody in the homes was hit. That Republican probably won't
be allowed another chance.
|
| 3:02p |
Right-wing deregulation
Right-wing politicians demand deregulation of many industrial
activities, including
construction, to "eliminate red tape." However,
the regulations were adopted to save the people's lives,
and
deregulation often leads to deadly accidents.
Building codes in the UK, and especially in London, are an excellent,
terrible example.
The end result is that deregulation benefits businesses (that do or
invest in the activities that have been deregulated), while the harm
tends to fall on poor people, such as the residents of danger-prone
buildings, the inhabitants of "cancer alley",
and the drivers that work for Uber.
|
| 3:02p |
Urgent: Billionaire's Minimum Income Tax
US citizens: phone your congresscritter and ask per to pass
the Billionaire's Minimum Income Tax.
The White House comments lines are
+1-202-456-1111
and (TTY/TDD) +1-202-456-6213.
If you phone, please spread the word!
It would ensure that every household worth over $100 million is paying
an effective tax rate of at least 20% on their total income each year.
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