rumschlumpel comments on Illinois Just Told Every Operating System to Start Reporting Your Kid's Age

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 63 points 1 month ago (5 children)

As a general rule, politicians who approve age gates and the people lobbying for it don't do it because of the children, but because they want mass surveillance. Granted, some politicians and lobbyists who genuinely care about children (if you can find any) are also just duped.

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[+] refalo@programming.dev -14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

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[–] crispbacon99@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 month ago

To control any political Opponents/ movements/ ideologies. Just Think all the ways this could be abused by a corrupt government.

See the surveillance state by Stalin in soviey russia. https://archive.org/details/youtube-nB5BolMoCZ8

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[–] TwoTiredMice@feddit.dk 6 points 1 month ago

/s ?

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[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 4 points 1 month ago*

German politicians are already sending the police home to people who insult them on forums and social media, including (temporary, but often for an extremely long time) confiscation of devices that may have been used for the "crime". And that's in a country that doesn't literally have masked government goons on the street that regularly abduct, injure and murder the law-abiding population (yet) like the US.

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[–] vanillama@programming.dev 1 point 1 month ago

Because their corporate donors want regular workers to be afraid and not get any ideas about redistributing wealth, unionizing, etc

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