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.
(Sorry, I’m from Finland, I don’t know much about the finer points.)
Well this is good. The folks in New York don’t need to worry about mega noisy AI data centers in their backyards anymore!
Or any other kind of datacenters!
Or internet infrastructure as a whole!
ISPs will just have to chuck their gear in the Atlantic! No way they’ll implement this shit for every single piece of gear. Because they know users won’t put up with authorising themselves at every network hop through NY.
Let me quote a joke IT security exam from the late 1990s:
This is what is ahead. Don’t give in!