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. In the name of “safety,” this bill would destroy online anonymity, expose sensitive personal data to breach and abuse, and replace parental decision-making with state-mandated censorship.

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…

  • DFX4509BEnglish
    15·
    16 days ago

    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.

    • Lemmayng@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      16 days ago

      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.