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System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks (www.theregister.com)
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[+] -7 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Can you provide any sources for these? Maybe a california legislator saying they plan to do this? Or a proposed law? Otherwise it is just the slippery slope fallacy. While that doesn't disprove what you said it does not provide a valid argument for it either.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Otherwise it is just the slippery slope fallacy.

    What do you think their intentions are, and why?

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  • [–] -1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child)

    The intentions for the law?

    AB 1043 offers a scalable, privacy-first approach that helps keep kids safe while holding tech companies accountable.

    -Assemblymember Wicks

    This ia a quote directly from the author of the bill link for reference.

    Now of course the obvious question many people might ask is "are they being truthful?" But that is a question that people will have to answer for themselves.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Now of course the obvious question many people might ask is “are they being truthful?”

    Yes that is a large part of what I meant by what are their intentions. If you can reasonably conclude that their that their intended goal will probably involve progressively restricting this area of legislation (whether through implications from their statements or the possibility of them not being truthful), then it is not a slippery slope fallacy.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago*

    no, i cant provide any sources because that's just what i'm assuming will happen. don't get me wrong, it is totally fair to ask for hard evidence of these claims, and the fact is, right now, that doesn't exist.

    but just based on my past experience with how the government likes to do things and hypothetically putting myself in their shoes, that's my, we'll call it "hypothesis", on what's gonna happen. my belief is that, at the end of the day, the government and big tech want to collect as much information about the public as they possibly can, and this is the order of operations that they are going to take to achieve that.

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