Subj : Age verification in OS
To   : Ron L.
From : Grant Weasner
Date : Wed Mar 11 2026 05:35 pm

  Re: Age verification in OS
  By: Ron L. to Grant Weasner on Wed Mar 11 2026 07:17:31

 > Distraction: try to distract away from other things happening - like Trump succeeding in Iraq.
 > Push: One of the Left's tactics is to do something that is most certainly unconstitutional, and wait for pushback.  When they
 > get
 > none, they push some more, etc.  But, as you said, someone will have to go to court over this and no one wants to pay that
 > expense.

seems like there is some other agenda given meta was one of the main contributors to initative.

 >
 > But the sinister background is to track people - especially children - on the Internet.

I wonder if this is to help identify children for better adds and pavlovian control. Just a dang odd initative.

 > The law is written so that the USERS won't go to court.  It's the companies who produce the OS that are on the hook.  But that
 > will
 > make open source companies seek other states/countries to base their operations out of.  There are several in Colorado and
 > California today - one of the reasons the laws started there.
 >

The stupid part is the premiss is FALSE.

Like the politicians believe the internet is in the computer by default.

I have computers that have no access to the internet because they don't have wifi or ethernet cards.

The dang OS isn't internet.

I think make the laws on the sites that are harming people not the dang computer/OS. If twiter/X, facebook, ..etc, are harming people then restrict those places, not the people.

Maybe they need to then restrict the keyboard via law.
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