Viral retro gaming creator Jacob “Retro Jake” Payne has died after he was hospitalized with severe heart failure
His family is now warning his 550,000 YouTube subscribers not to send money or answer messages from people impersonating Payne or his loved ones
Younger voters are extremely concerned about data privacy and surveillance. They're also far more tech-savvy than most of the political class and they understand that "age verification" - is "papers please" to access the digital world.
They understand that ID verification does not protect children online.
They have watched as red states and the republicans in Congress have worked fast and furious to implement this de facto digital ID through legislation or litigation.
This is uniparty, Big Government, surveillance of citizens and outside of the astroturfed coalitions, nobody actually wants this!!
Apple will check every item shared with Anyone with the Link on iCloud from iOS 27.3 onward.
Apple’s support page from 3 November says those shares become accessible to Apple so it can check for harmful content. The page never defines what counts as harmful.
Public links are no longer end-to-end encrypted, even when Advanced Data Protection is turned on.
Apple can remove or delete flagged content at any time. It can also disable the Apple Account, stop a new account from being created with the same email or phone number, and involve law enforcement if necessary.
Anyone with the Link now means Apple holds a copy it can inspect and act on.
Brussels has frozen national social media age verification laws in Austria and Flanders for 12 months.
You might assume it finally noticed the privacy and free speech problem.
It didn’t.
The Commission wants its own EU KIDS Act to go first, and that law is far bigger. Every user on social media, app stores, online games and AI chatbots would have to prove their age through a government-approved system. Anyone whose age “cannot be established” would have their account disabled.
Adults who refuse to verify would be treated as children.
The Commission’s own age verification app was hacked in under two minutes. The fight in Brussels was never about whether to check your ID. It’s about who gets to do it.
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New Jersey wants AI chatbot makers held strictly liable, at $5,000 per violation. The bill also forces them to keep every chat log. The safest chatbot under this law is one that checks your ID, reads your messages, and calls the police if it suspects a crime...
https://t.co/0DJqiJGFLl
What the fuck happened to the UK?
Coming home from school at 14 to hop on MW2 with everyone was all we looked forward to.
Now they're trying to make it harder for kids to do the same thing I did in 2009, but with Fortnite.
There's more important shit to focus on than this...
@EthicaGaming are you aware of the ASAA in texas and ohio? App store accountability act. it enforces age verification on the app store. There's Safe Screen Act in Florida. ohio's parental notification by social media operators
all online age verification bills and acts
45 attorneys general have written to Congress demanding it quickly pass the Senate’s Kids Online Safety Act, with the "duty of care" intact.
That clause makes platforms liable for content a regulator decides is harmful, so sites will delete lawful speech to stay out of court.
The AGs openly describe their $17 billion Meta settlement as a stepping stone. That deal forces Meta to age-check every Facebook and Instagram user with ID or a face scan, and both sides agreed never to challenge it as unconstitutional.
They also want KOSA to leave their own state powers untouched, so they can keep adding rules on top. They want one federal standard and fifty extra ones as well. Every version ends with an ID check.
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