#online verification

[digikartik-blog]

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[justinspoliticalcorner]

ANNA BONESTEEL AND EVAN GREER at Them:

Pride Month is over. As the “LOVE IS LOVE” banners come down and companies lose the rainbow gradients from their logos, we’re faced with a painful truth: LGBTQ+ people, especially the most marginalized among us, are in the crosshairs of a queerphobic backlash that is targeting our health, our histories, and especially our youth. And things are getting worse, not better. According to NPR, half of all US states now ban gender-affirming care for people under 18. Eight states now censor LGBTQ+ issues from school curricula via “Don’t Say Gay” laws, and two more states are considering similar legislation this year. The number-one book targeted for censorship is a graphic novel memoir about gender identity.

This June, Democratic lawmakers marched in Pride parades and spoke on stages, vowing to protect our community and fight back against legislative attacks on queer youth. But some of these same lawmakers are actively pushing federal legislation that would cut LGBTQ+ youth off from resources, information, and communities that can save their lives. Currently, 38 Democratic senators support the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), a bill that is vocally opposed by many queer and trans youth, along with a coalition of human rights and LGBTQ+ groups. As a queer- and trans-led advocacy group focused on the ways technology impacts human rights, our organization, Fight for the Future, has seen bills like KOSA before: misguided internet bills that try to solve real problems, but ultimately throw marginalized people under the bus by expanding censorship and surveillance rather than addressing corporate abuses. KOSA’s most obvious predecessor is SESTA/FOSTA, a Trump-era bill that its supporters claimed would clamp down on online sex trafficking. Instead, the bill did almost nothing to accomplish its goal, and has actively harmed LGBTQ+ people and sex workers whose harm-reduction resources were decimated by the subsequent crackdown on online speech.

Like SESTA/FOSTA, some of KOSA’s supporters have positive intent. Many lawmakers and organizations support KOSA because they are concerned about real harms caused by Big Tech, like addictive design features and manipulative algorithms. But, also like SESTA/FOSTA, KOSA doesn’t touch the core issues with Big Tech’s extractive, exploitative business model. Instead, KOSA relies on a “duty of care” model that will pressure social platforms to suppress any speech the government is willing to argue makes kids “depressed” or “anxious.”

Under KOSA, platforms could be sued for recommending a potentially depression- or anxiety-inducing video to anyone under 18. We know from past experience that in order to protect their bottom line, social media companies will overcompensate and actively suppress posts and groups about gender identity, sexuality, abortion — anything they’re worried the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) could be willing to argue “harms” kids. How do you think a potential Trump administration’s FTC would use that kind of authority?

Other features of the bill stretch its censorship potential further. Despite language claiming that the bill does not require platforms to conduct “age verification,” to meaningfully comply with the law, platforms will have to know who is under 18. This means they’ll institute invasive age verification systems or age-gating, which can completely cut off access for LGBTQ+ youth who have unsupportive parents, and/or make it unsafe for queer people to access online resources anonymously. KOSA creates powerful new ways for the government to interfere with online speech. For this reason, the bill is like catnip to extreme right-wing groups like the Heritage Foundation, the coordinators of Project 2025, who have explicitly said they want to use it to target LGBTQ+ content. KOSA’s lead Republican sponsor, Marsha Blackburn, has also said in an interview she wants to use KOSA to protect minors “from the transgender.”

The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) purports to protect children, but in reality, it’s a censorship bill that would impact LGBTQ+ youth. #StopKOSA #KOSA

[botgal]

Update on AB 3080 and AB 1949

AB 3080 (age verification for adult websites and online purchase of products and services not allowed for minors) and AB 1949 (prohibiting data collection on individuals less than 18 years of age) both officially have hearing dates for the California Senate Judiciary Committee.

The hearing date for these bills is scheduled to be Tuesday 07/02/2024. Which means that the deadline to turn in position letters is going to be noon one week before the hearing on 06/25/2024. It's not a lot of time from this moment, but I'm certain we can each turn one in before then

Remember that position letters should be single topic, in strict opposition of what each bill entails. Keep on topic and professional when writing them. Let us all do our best to keep these bills from leaving committee so that we don't have to fight them on the Senate floor. But let's also not stop sending correspondence to our state representatives anyway.

Remember, the jurisdiction of the Senate Judiciary Committee is as follows.

"Bills amending the Civil Code, Code of Civil Procedure, Evidence Code, Family Code, and Probate Code. Bills relating to courts, judges, and court personnel. Bills relating to liens, claims, and unclaimed property. Bills relating to privacy and consumer protection."

Best of luck everyone. And thank you for your efforts to fight this so far.

Below is linked the latest versions of the bills.

Below are the links to the Committee's homepage which gives further information about the Judiciary Committee, and the page explaining further in depth their letter policy.

Edit: Was requested to add in information such as why these bills are bad and what sites could potentially be affected by these bills. So here's the explanation I gave in asks.

Why are these bills bad?

Both bills are essentially age verification requirement laws. AB 3080 explicitly, and AB 1949 implicitly.

AB 3080 strictly is calling for dangerous age verification requirements for both adult websites and any website which sells products or services which it is illegal for minors to access in California. While this may sound like a good idea on paper, it's important to keep in mind that any information that's put online is at risk of being extracted and used by bad actors like hackers. Even if there are additional requirements by the law that data be deleted after its used for its intended purpose and that it not be used to trace what websites people access. The former of which provides very little protection from people who could access the databases of identification that are used for verification, and the latter which is frankly impossible to completely enforce and could at any time reasonably be used by the government or any surveying entity to see what private citizens have been looking at since their ID would be linked to the access and not anonymized.

AB 1949 is nominally to protect children from having their data collected and sold without permission on websites. However by restricting this with an age limit it opens up similar issues wherein it could cause default requirements for age verification for any website so that they can avoid liability by users and the state.

What websites could they affect?

AB 3080, according to the bill's text, would affect websites which sells the types of items listed below

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(b) Products or services that are illegal to sell to a minor under state law that are subject to subdivision (a) include all of the following:

(1) An aerosol container of paint that is capable of defacing property, as referenced in Section 594.1 of the Penal Code.

(2) Etching cream that is capable of defacing property, as referenced in Section 594.1 of the Penal Code.

(3) Dangerous fireworks, as referenced in Sections 12505 and 12689 of the Health and Safety Code.

(4) Tanning in an ultraviolet tanning device, as referenced in Sections 22702 and 22706 of the Business and Professions Code.

(5) Dietary supplement products containing ephedrine group alkaloids, as referenced in Section 110423.2 of the Health and Safety Code.

(6) Body branding, as referenced in Sections 119301 and 119302 of the Health and Safety Code.

(c) Products or services that are illegal to sell to a minor under state law that are subject to subdivision (a) include all of the following:

(1) Firearms or handguns, as referenced in Sections 16520, 16640, and 27505 of the Penal Code.

(2) A BB device, as referenced in Sections 16250 and 19910 of the Penal Code.

(3) Ammunition or reloaded ammunition, as referenced in Sections 16150 and 30300 of the Penal Code.

(4) Any tobacco, cigarette, cigarette papers, blunt wraps, any other preparation of tobacco, any other instrument or paraphernalia that is designed for the smoking or ingestion of tobacco, products prepared from tobacco, or any controlled substance, as referenced in Division 8.5 (commencing with Section 22950) of the Business and Professions Code, and Sections 308, 308.1, 308.2, and 308.3 of the Penal Code.

(5) Electronic cigarettes, as referenced in Section 119406 of the Health and Safety Code.

(6) A less lethal weapon, as referenced in Sections 16780 and 19405 of the Penal Code."

This is stated explicitly to include "internet website on which the owner of the internet website, for commercial gain, knowingly publishes sexually explicit content that, on an annual basis, exceeds one-third of the contents published on the internet website". Wherein "sexually explicit content" is defined as "visual imagery of an individual or individuals engaging in an act of masturbation, sexual intercourse, oral copulation, or other overtly sexual conduct that, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value."

This would likely not include websites like AO3 or any website which displays NSFW content not in excess of 1/3 of the content on the site. Possibly not inclusive of writing because of the "visual imagery", but don't know at this time. In any case we don't want to set a precedent off of which it could springboard into non-commercial websites or any and all places with NSFW content.

AB 1949 is a lot more broad because it's about general data collection by any and all websites in which they might sell personal data collected by the website to third parties, especially if aimed specifically at minors or has a high chance of minors commonly accesses the site. But with how broad the language is I can't say there would be ANY limits to this one. So both are equally bad and would require equal attention in my opinion.

[homucifer-ryotan]

Elon wants to talk about "radical leftists" as if he didn't rub elbows with a radical leftist named Richard Blumenthal a last month (December 2024) to get the Kill Online Speech Act (KOSA) to pass.

I guess Elon will gladly be friendly with "radical leftists" if it means he can know the real identity of anyone who doesn't like him (because remember, KOSA requires government ID of anyone in or out of American if you want to use an American based website.. because somehow that will "keep kids safe") and if it means stuff he doesn't like online will be censored.

Since a voting for KOSA could be happening in Texas, please use these links to help prevent KOSA from passing:

[dsabian]

Australia is planning on banning under 16s from using social media.

So so many reasons this is a stupid idea but the main one is actually, counter-intuitively, ppl's online safety.

Grown ups know how to cross the road safely because they are taught as children. They get to practice with parental supervision when they're kids.

You keep kids off social media then give them unlimited access at 16 and they'll have no frame of reference, no supervision, no working knowledge of how to fact check etc. If you actually want ppl to be safe online, make it part of education.

When discussing Animal Farm in English, talk about how to analyse ideas that sound good but actually result in inequality in practice and then pull up some questionable tweets.

When teaching kids how to research for their next essay, give them a fb rant and show them how to verify the info.

And then whoever is teaching them about personal responsibility should introduce them to tag blocking on tumblr. Show them how to curate their own experience.

Chat gtp should be its own module titled "ai can and will lie to you please for the love of god learn to think for yourself"

[daytimemin]

KEEP CALLING!

The House and Senate return from their breaks December 2nd and 3rd and will be at work for the next 3 weeks. Now is the final stretch and most prevalent time to keep up public pressure and urge them to reject KOSA. We can continue to make sure this bill isn't a threat by doing so! I'll try to make more posts on the 2nd and 3rd when they return, but please keep calling and spreading the word about this bill. While we don't know what they'll try to do these next 3 weeks, we need to remain aware and vocal.

Steve Scalise: (202) 225-3015

Mike Johnson: (202) 225-2777

Hakeem Jeffries: (202) 225-5936

[kalosian-woods]

Maybe... 8, 12, and 17 for the gang?

Techincally already did 12 for Ash (and on the same day too heh), but I'll see what I can do (beacuse I cannot separate the gang no matter what, you either take em all or leave them :3)

8. Unpopular opinion about them

Ash: He's not OP or aura-farming or totally awesome for spamming the use of Greninja, he's just a boy who had found a shortcut and did what all kids would do. I feel like a lot of people forget that he's a young guy and not like 20 or whatever he seems to be with the art style - and especially if you take in account all the Leagues and failures and goodbyes that have weighed on him before, it makes sense that he would grasp onto this very real boost of power, no matter the consequence. And yes, I do believe that the Bond Phenomenon does have a price. After all, with great power comes...

Bonnie: All her eps were absolute peak and anyone who hates them deserve to be sniped via Thousand Arrows. I honestly feel like people only notice her for her bond with Squishy, but that is just as valid of an observation with Tyrunt/Tyrantrum, Lapras and Flabebe. They're all amazing and deep and so soul-crushing and my heart struggles to understand how we went from maybe a handful of eps for the little guy (Max) in AG to such thoughtful eps that happen frequently with Bonnie. Just,,,, my girl was always winning and I don't understand the problem with it.

Serena: Her love for Ash fuels her independence rather than hinders it. I feel like a lot of people either tilt towards the romance meaning that it's going to be stiffling and restrictive for her or that she is meant to be bonded at the hip to him. But her love helped her get out of the home and kick-start her journey, got her to reflect in the Summer Camp and what she's going to do now (in the present), gives her the strength and courage to keep going strong with her team even when things seemed tough. She's the type of person to bloom when given a reason. And it just turns out her love for Ash was what her going.

Clemont: Don't want to be that person but... was it me or the Gym Battle was a lot less cooler than I expected it to be? Clem rarely interacted with Heliolisk (and don't get me started on the rest of his admittedly small and not so diverse Gym Team) and ngl that was the highlight of the ep for me. Love Luxray and Electric Terrain continues to be my favourite move, but it was the main sweeper of the battle, and don't get me started on Bunnelby. Bro. You had your time to shine with the Gym Takeback, why are you here for an official match?? It's not even about learning one (1) Electric move, it was just the fact that we overuse cliches and 'feel cool/good' moments instead of being rational about an important battle. If he could use Bunnelby, then he could also use Chespin and make this a Travel Team battle (very :/). Or he could use his /Gym/ Team for the Gym Battle and do something there. Ig this also has the problem of him barely using his Gym Team but that's something else.

12. Crack headcanon

Clemont: I'VE BEEN HAVING THIS HC FOR AGES I've always thought that all his physical strength is stored in his arms. Look, considering he can't run and he tires easily + his abiliy to make machines of various sizes while barely breaking a sweat + I can never forget ep3 where he was cranking that Bird Pokémon Attractor or whatever it was called at supersonic speeds. It makes sense in my heart. He can't carry as much because /legs/ but he can do a lot with his arms I'm just saying.

Serena: Very similar but totally different to above, can win all armwrestling contests. It's all that holding onto Rhyhorn's reins with a death grip that makes her that strong. Once she realised this she used it to win arguements with her mother (after a while even Grace couldn't beat her). Ash is very worried about everyone's upper body strength here but he also finds it very cool.

Bonnie: Has her own Roblox-adjacent account that she goes into while they're waiting in the Pokemon Centres and tries to catfish people there (it's not really catfishing if she has a real and true intention to get Clemont hitched, but the mods always ban her) (she's made 53 accounts so far) (yes, she does also get expensive customisation and smashes other people in PvP)

Ash: It’s an effect that has worsened thanks to the Bond Phenomenon, but he gets mistaken as a cryptid A Lot, especially when they’re travelling in forests. When people take a pic his eyes sometimes glows, sometimes he doesn't make any footsteps at all, and he can notice a traveller from far away (and then call out to them with his mouth full, making a terrifying sound). Ash insists it’s just bad lighting, learning some skills on his travels (Pokémon Watching anyone?) and just being observant (and stupid afterwards) respectfully, but the jury is still out on that one. Somehow even Greninja is concerned. Pikachu finds it hilarious.

17. Quotes, songs, poems, etc. that I associate with them

Ughhh my music taste is unfathomable to everyone but me, and sometimes it's either only the beat or the words that work. I usually blast out Idol (cover by Will Stetson, but I can also go for Trickle as well and also the OG vers. by Yoasobi and the orchestra versions as well) (basically I've got a wide range of variety here lol) for Serena, especially when dreaming about Showcases. That's Why I Gave Up On Music (cover by Rachie) also has got me in a vicegrip lately as I think about the early days of Serena's journey up to that first (failed) Showcase.

Funnily enough, I go for Fatal (this time only by Will Stetson and also this one (1) orchestra) for Ash because the wanting, the taking the vibes ;w; Also go with No Longer You from Epic the Musical for the whole Olympia prophecy thing and Dangerous from the same musical for the whole Greninja training in Snowbelle part (with some minor tinkling with the plot).

Mr Sunfish by YonKaGor is somehow a Chespin/Clemont fic for me?? Been also blasting Look At The Sky (phritz vip version) while doing ‘all roads lead to you’. Said it before and I’ll say it again, Sad Machine is so him + Clembot core, and with the crisis especially Goodbye To A World (both Porter Robinson, though I’ve heard some amazing orchestra versions) (yes I’m an orchestra person lol). There's also Hold Them Down (very dark, ik, but it is Crisis themed for me and more of Xerosic's point of view) + this particular part in Odysseus in Epic the Musical for the Crisis.

I don’t think I have any specific for Bonnie as of now, beyond one orchestra of Itte/Say It that I love a lot for one of the fic I’m getting up to. Honestly these ate more fic/arc-orientated rather than characters, BUT let it never be said that the Squishy song isn’t a banger. And also obviously the XY songs they’re all great <333

[jackandclairearesiblings]

SPN season 16 except Sam goes back to school and get shell shocked by the change in atmosphere and vibes

[lobotomy-maybe-bestie]

please please please don't send random strangers pictures of your legal documents over discord. like. please. and ESPECIALLY do not censor the information in a photo editor of any kind. like just Don't send anyone pictures of your id etc in general but if you feel like the world is gonna end if you don't then PLEASE censor it physically (put something on the document to block personal info) a lot of editing stuff can be fucked with to make text below visible!!

but just please god i see discords that have over a hundred members and require a legal document for age verification. it's genuinely scaring me a little. DO NOT SEND A COMPLETE STRANGER A PICTURE OF YOUR ID OR OTHER IDENTIFYING DOCUMENTS NO MATTER HOW MUCH OF IT IS OBSCURED. NO ONE WHO WANTS A PICTURE OF YOUR ID HAS YOUR BEST INTEREST IN MIND. at best they are people who don't really understand data security or privacy and won't take what they're doing seriously enough to protect your id. and at WORST they're people looking to use or sell your personal information. a potential cool discord server is not worth it (& the verification itself is an extreme red flag for the amount of control the mods in a server like that want to exert on you)

[feetpiclovers]

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[culticterror]

Are you comfortable sharing like what server your in? So other people can maybe join? Or if its like closed i understand! :3

It's technically public but I won't disclose it specifically because it's relatively balanced in activity atm and doesn't need a tumblr's worth of attention. (Plus I have my noods on there, and I'm too hot for most people🤭/hj) Though I will recommend "Erotic Hypnosis" as a intro portal to poke around. It's not very active, but it's got resources and is just good to have on hand just in case I would say. Back in it's hay-day I did trance in front of 30 people. It was terrifying lol, now I could totally do it without batting an eye. Wild how things change over the years.

[where-the-water-flows]

If you know how to do it you can use someone’s phone number to find their full legal name and home address. It’s just a bit of Google and knowing what websites stores this kind of info. Saw your tags asking how a phone number could verify someone’s age

So, I appreciate you dropping into my askbox to pass that info on - genuinely, it's kind of you - and I can see how my tags came across, but what I actually meant wasn't 'how can you find info on someone just with their phone number??' -- I actually do exactly that kind of thing in my day job pretty regularly, and I have to conform to a lot of real strict ethic constraints that uh, bluntly, random discord moderators...do not.

What I was actually getting at is the fact that, assuming the hypothetical server is just using a phone number as age verification (and doing data broker/google search on that), how in the hell is it controlling for someone doing what people under the arbitrary age limit du jour have been doing since we started implementing this sort of check, ie, lying like rugs and supplying info for someone in their family/social circle instead who is older than [whatever age].

like. sure. maybe you get a phone number for age verification. awesome. plug that into your data broker/google/etc of choice, run your searches, and ok, it belongs to jane smith, 38 years old, accountant who lives in ballarat, she's totally fine to join the 18+ server! come on in jane, the smut is plentiful and the doves are extremely dead. Jane smith has a kid. jane smith's kid is 15. jane smith's kid isn't allowed in the server, because it's an 18+ only server.

jane smith's kid almost certainly knows their mum's mobile number.

how the hell can Hypothetical Server Mod control for 15 year old jane smith's kid putting in jane smith's mobile number instead of their own? and also, separately, how the hell is HSM dealing with the many -- many many many -- different privacy laws around the globe?

not just in terms of handling that sort of information on people (and also requesting it in the first place!), but also just. some countries you can get so much fucking info on someone! (the US. I'm talking about the US.)

some you can't. because privacy laws, because the info isn't publicly accessible, because it's not online and is only in hard copy at the local government office, because it's collated but only in a nonenglish language, because it's geolocked-- etc.

also, like. even if the hypothetical phone number brings up someone in the US, and also your hypothetical mod team has decided, y'know, fuck privacy laws, security of information and data ethics can take a long walk off a short pier, we're keeping this server 18+ or dying trying!

data brokers aren't...actually consistently what you would call...super accurate, or like, accurate at all. if you have a unique name, yeah, sure, you're probably kinda fucked! (assuming you're in, again, somewhere the data brokers focus) but like. if you're named something a little more common - say, james smith, or maria sanchez in the US- uh. well. there sure are a lot of people you could be, and some of them - most of them! - are over 18.

and ok, sure, a phone number is (usually) only associated with one person, but. you can get a lot of false positives, false negatives, and straight up 'we don't know 🤪', the latter of which is sometimes hidden by the databrokers going 'our best guess is that this person is: An Age!! somewhere between 0 and 200 years old. 😇'

again, I use this stuff for work, I can tell you exactly how inaccurate it can get as soon as you throw something like 'not based in the US/UK' or 'uses a nickname/multiple name formats' or 'isn't super online' or 'older than 65 and not turbo wealthy' at some of these - I've had more than one confidently tell me that [my wallet name] is an accountant based in darwin who makes horror films in alice springs on the side, and also, is 26, and had 2-3 kids with her husband Lauchlan.

literally none of these facts are true. like. even vaguely.

and that can of worms doesn't even get into if someone has requested to be removed from data broker databases and/or takes online privacy Very Seriously and/or is just fundamentally ungoogleable, which is...more common than you'd think. less common than you'd like, but more common than you think, even before google started enshittifying itself out of existence.

which is why when you're trying to do things like prove your identity to uhhh goverments, banks, etc, they want multiple forms of ID, one of which is usually a photo ID, none of which anyone should be sending to a random on discord, or, frankly, asking for from a random on discord, both bc my god privacy and security risk but also like. handling that information can actually have legal requirements!

anyway. extremely long ramble on the failings of databrokers over, I appreciate you reaching out to help explain and it was very kind of you anon, sorry that I have. uhhhh kind of a lot of professional feelings about data privacy and basic social engineering, by which I mean saying 'no I'm totally 18 pinkie swear' in the grand tradition of teens wanting to get into age locked areas ever, your forebears lied on LJ so you could lie on discord.

[boxchewr]

okay one thing that's fucked up with the 80-90 dollar switch 2 games is that. because there are no physical carts and they're just codes to verify a purchase online that means that come 10 years (the average lifespan of a nintendo system's online support) there's a pretty good chance that anyone getting a switch 2 for the first time just. won't be able to play anything on it unless they get one with an account already (if accounts even still work). because the servers will be down so they can't verify the codes they spent money on. and this will become less and less of a rare situation as time passes as this is, from what can be told now, the system that will slowly brick itself on purpose over a span of 10 years and demands 20-30 extra dollars compared to its competitors to do so

(i don't have an xbox or a ps5 to confirm if this will also be a problem for them but considering the massive fucking sizes of games these days it probably will be the case for that as well and i hate modern gaming a lot good god)

[botgal]

California Internet Bills Status 8/9/2024

As of right now, here's the status of the three primary internet bills of note.

AB 3080, age verification for nsfw websites. Currently has been improved its terms so that metadata and other methods to better filtering as parental controls is allowed as an option rather than always age verification via ID and credit card transactions. However, it's best to still nip this one in the bud if possible. So I'd still recommend messaging your reps about it.

This bill went through second reading, but has been re-referred to the Senate Appropriations Committee. The hearing is scheduled for August 12th. You can find your members in the link below. So best to call them before that date if they're a part of the committee.

AB 1949, surrounding collecting personal data of those less than 18 years of age with risks of age verification due to broad language, has been sent to the Senate Suspense File and is awaiting the vote. There's no set date on the Senate website for it, but the Assembly Suspense date is listed as August 15th, so best assumption for now is that it will be on the same day. So call your Senate reps for these as well if they're a part of the Appropriations Committee (see the link above).

Lastly, SB 976, regarding age restricting "addictive" algorithms and time restricting access to social media platforms for individuals under 18. Very likely leading to age verification. Has been placed on the Assembly Suspense file for August 15th. If you have tim please call your Assembly member if they're a part of the Appropriations committee as listed below.

Thank you again for taking your time to voice your opinions and help keep our internet safe.

[highhorsegirl]

well, whatever. verifiable or not, Rusty was born to see the new SSO intro, and she'll damn well see it through!!!

[sandcheeze13]

update:

this is for arizona only.

not sure if anyone outside of arizona can do this, too, but we'll see. either way, tell her to veto this bill.

edit: for those in washington

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