This all seems to be a ploy to link IP addresses and online activity directly to an identifiable person to make them easier to catch and track down. The government falsely assumed that everyone watches porn and they thought they would get everyone that way. It obviously did not work as well as they were hoping so they are now expanding it. (I have always said that initial laws are just a foot in the door, those laws will always be expanding after the fact into their true original intended purpose).
So their plan now is if you want to use any social media or much of the internet in any way, you will need to prove that you are over 18 which means submitting an ID. This will require far far more ID submissions which will massively expand the government database, which was the real plan all along, not the safety of children.
The funniest thing about this is after all the fuss about the Online Safety Act, this blanket ban on kids using social media pretty much renders the entire act pointless and made it a giant waste of time. Which to be honest, proves that the act was never about protecting children but was really about building a giant database that links all online activity directly to a person.
This database would then be constantly poured over by AI to flag "citizens of concern" to the government who may be potential political dissidents, saying naughty anti-government things etc so the government can pre-emptively act against them.
Minority Report. This is literally the plot of Minority Report.
@DrewVento Whenever I talk to my dad who is a classical Hillary Lib- only listens to NPR in his car, he absolutely refuses to acknowledge anything that conflicts with his established worldview. Rising cost of living, shrinking job prospects, enshittification= "lazy" and "refusal to learn."
@GayBearRes I believe that when all service staff are no longer directly accessable to the average boomer all services will get immensely smoother and faster. Swear some olds make being annoying and obtuse a hobby.
@jayplemons Following the story I just can't fathom what could possibly be worth all the hassle, law enforcement corruption and financial ramifications for a bunch of legos. Only theory that makes any sense is some politnepotyrant wanted the sets and pulled strings to get it without paying.
@feydemon I enjoy CC way more because I can actually do stuff sometimes instead of being piled and stunned to death for having the audacity to try and work toward the objective instead of staying snugly in the blob.
@Beeburn22 Millennial slop is full of YA fantasy epic bacon cringe, GenX slop is full of member the 80s remakes, and genZ slop is pretending ChukEcheeze was scary and that a compelling horror story is "monster chases you down a hallway"
@KevinDahmer I would be ok with one or two hard mode revisit dungeons on some patches maybe with some of the paths we didn't visit on the original or after a big change or incursion.