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[–] 12 points 8 months ago (3 children)

It used to be that similar (and equally bad) ideas were getting traction because of copyright law, e.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Broadband_and_Digital_Television_Promotion_Act

Now other excuses for the same thing have been invented. I wonder which will be next.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    I don't feel this push for locking us out of control over our own systems under the cover of "protecting the children with age verification" is anything more than a continued effort to secure a DRM-based hardware system for the MSFT OS and media companies. This smells just like their pushes in the past to steal control over hardware through legal channels. It's the same war we've been fighting for 30 years now.

    Read up on the Clipper Chip from the 90's. What's old is new again.

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