> plus they get to point the finger at someone else for age issues.
This is the real benefit to Meta/FB/etc. that many seem to overlook. Meta/FB/etc. are already staring down a lot of court cases related to "addicting youngsters" to their product (and potentially a lot [i.e. billions of dollars] of payout for settlements or penalties in cases that side against them).
But, if they can get the government to mandate that the operating system is responsible for verifying a user's age, they get to avoid liability (i.e., more billions of dollars) for serving anything from their properties to an underage user if the OS tells them that the user is "old enough" for whatever they served. So long as Meta follows the law and asks the OS "is this user old enough" and if the OS replies "old enough" then the liability for mistakes in the age identification shifts to the OS provider and away from Meta/etc.
The part that is odd here is why Microsoft, Apple and Google (the "OS providers" truly being targeted) are not massively lobbying against this due to the legal liability risk that Meta is trying to shift over to them.
I thought I saw somewhere this happening, but as you know, this is a "workaround", not a fix.
Unless we stop using fossil fuels we will have a lot more to worry about. But we get a hint on exactly where we are going with the Iran war. The largest worry in the West is not the war, but price of oil raising. IMO, we should let it raise sky high to force a quick move to renewables.
As things are now, we are heading straight to +2.5C with no end in sight.
If young people actual voted all the time and understand it will take at least 4 - 8 years for the changes to occur, then things would be different.
But the young do not vote and when they do, they expect instant changes. That is not how society works. Instant changes, good or bad, only happen under a dictator who has no problem disobeying the laws.
> Instant changes, good or bad, only happen under a dictator who has no problem disobeying the laws.
I would take it one step further and say that instant changes are universally bad. Good ideas take time to plan and implement, and often times, the best ideas won't show off their true worth inside a single political term.
No, I don't. If you have to go stand in line for hours in swing states to vote and you've got an 8 hour shift (plus 30-60 minute lunch) you've not got enough time. And that doesn't even count commute time to work and back, then to the polling place, nor people who have longer than 8 hour shifts.
No surprise for large companies, one company even renamed itself but its approval ratings still stayed in the basement.
A fortune 500 company I worked for renamed internal projects many times when the original failed. But they continued dumping money into those black holes. One dollar eating project was renamed 3 times and was on its way for a 4th rename when I left. That project was started between 2005 and 2010. I was not involved with it, but everyone knew it would fail.
So M/S renaming copilot ? I expect a few more renames as time goes on :)
I read elsewhere (here?) that it was the main developer of WireGuard who had their account suspended. If true, and based on what I read seems it is true, I am surprised this did not reach the "mainstream" press.
All I can say is this is another proof of M/S abuse of their users:
Because meta will not have to spend real $ to add/support age verification, plus they get to point the finger at someone else for age issues.
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