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.
There are ways to set up clandestine connections of computers, that can connect to the broader internet in a variety of ways. It was designed by the USG in fact, for use in countries they wanted to overthrow. They removed most of the information from finding it on a search page long back, but it includes beaming signals from computer to computer with bluetooth type stuff, the tor and onion routers were part of the projects, sending internet traffic over power lines, and all sorts of stuff. I read about this in detail on a dailykos journal of all places 15 years back or so. Can’t find it now. There was a lot more to it.