The KIDS Act just passed the House and it's on to the Senate now. Assuming this passes, it'll mark the end of online free speech and device ownership in the US.

Contact your Senators about it while you still can, I just got through writing both of mine.

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[–] 2 points 4 months ago

Ah, yes ! Murica the land of free sp** ch ,sorry I mean free shit

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    With August recess just weeks away, the window for Congress to pass kids’ safety legislation this year is narrowing. Prospects of the package clearing both chambers are dim, as the House and Senate remain at an impasse over which of the competing child safety efforts lawmakers should coalesce around — and if such a proposal should block or replace some state artificial intelligence laws.

    at least there is one good part

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Fuck capitalism under the tech bros. Me and my buddies have more tin cans and string than you could ever hope to control and we are working on our communications network as I type this. We don't need your toys and baubles.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)

    Bad archive site uses visitors for DDoSing and edits saved pages.

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Changed the link to the original page. There's gotta be better archival sites if archive.today DDoSes and edits pages and the Wayback Machine is getting actively blocked by the major publications.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Anyone have on hand an easy list of who voted for this bill so we can check how our reps voted?

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I will quit. 100% y'all can find me in the woods.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Not if I can help it. They can't take away my device ownership if it has Linux installed on it.

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  • [–] [S] 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

    One way they could do that is by web DRM blocking 'unapproved' OSes from loading stuff. Google reCAPTCHA is already laying the foundation for this.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago*

    I asked that a long time ago somewhere

    but when testing with creepjs.org it always detected my OS as linux, no matter what browser or extensions I use or which useragent I set. But when I tried tor browser with js enabled it detected windows.

    Does anybody know how tor does that and if so, how can it be applied to firefox or librewolf or whatever (either config or patch) ?

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    require platforms to implement age verification technology for users accessing pornographic material

    Wut. I understand (though i dont agree with) trying to limit children from accessing toxic social media sites with algorithms that encourage suicide

    ...but what argument could you possibly make for trying prevent teenagers from viewing pornography?!?

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