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Act Now to Stop California’s Paternalistic and Privacy-Destroying Social Media Ban (www.eff.org)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Blaze@piefed.zip to c/privacy@programming.dev

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California lawmakers are fast-tracking A.B. 1709—a sweeping bill that would ban anyone under 16 from using social media and force every user, regardless of age, to verify their identity before accessing social platforms.That means that under this bill, all Californians would be required to submit...

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[–] DFX4509B@lemmy.wtf 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Next step, you won't own your devices anymore, and the end game is a state intranet on government thin clients.

All lobbied for by Meta.

This is gonna kill the Fediverse and that is the intention.

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Will it kill the Fediverse? If an alternative network is set up, all the Fedi servers need to do is connect to that alt network to continue to operate.

Yes, there will be growing pains, especially since this alt network may not scale as well at first, but I can't imagine the Fediverse going away. It'll just go deeper underground.

[–] Jo4ted@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago

Its a win for them either way

[–] njordomir@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I've emailed and called my congress people and the cosponsors about the Colorado one. Not sure what to do next.