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There are a lot of GOP-controller legislatures in the USA pushing through so-called “child protection” laws, but there’s a toll in the form of impacting people’s rights and data privacy. Most of these bills involve requiring adults to upload a copy of their photo ID.

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[–] darth_helmet 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There’s a vanishingly small chance that the government wouldn’t fuck that up. Here is what would happen:

  • bill gets signed
  • no bid contract is assigned to a technology firm with a history of incompetence at everything other than lobbying for billions of dollars
  • 3-letter agencies secretly inject back door stipulations into the system so that they can keep spying on everyone
  • years late and at double the budget, it releases
  • two months later, someone shows off the secret backdoor keys at DEFCON, along with instructions on how to dump the access database
  • years of extortion material for spy agencies and organized crime around the world
  • zero children protected: they learn an ancient technology called “torrenting”
  • new calls for even more draconian control of information to save the children from sexy terrorists
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Internet companies that are forced to take people's personal information could do it at their cost