“Ready or not, age verification is rolling out across the #Internet”

“It’s just a taste of the issues that many other countries might face as they launch their own systems, and it’s a situation that privacy and security experts have long warned about — to little avail.

Following a yearslong political push to make the internet safer for kids, age #verification has started seeping into online spaces across the globe. Lawmakers in the #USA, #Europe, #Australia, and elsewhere have all passed #AgeGating #rules, and platforms have begun to comply.

The likely methods for verification are similar to those in the UK. #Platforms typically ask users to either enter a #PaymentCard, upload a #GovernmenIssuedID, take a selfie, or allow a platform to use their #data (like account #CreationDates and #UserConnections) to “estimate” their age. Most rely on #ThirdParty services: #Bluesky uses the #EpicGames-owned Kids Web Services; #Reddit is working with #Persona; and #Discord has partnered with #kID.”

#UK / #OnlineSafetyAct / #OSA / #AgeVerification / #surveillance / #control <https://www.theverge.com/analysis/715767/online-age-verification-not-ready> (paywall) / <https://archive.md/jQuvd>

Got a voucher for a boat license yesterday. Because of someone nice and thoughtful, who heard me mentioning it as a wish. Thanks, how cool uh?! Talk more about your wishes!

“PROBE LAUNCHED INTO WESTMINSTER GROUP’S ISRAEL FUNDING”

by Martin Williams in Declassified UK @Declassified_UK

@palestine
@israel
@UKLabour

“Exclusive: Parliamentary standards boss announces investigation after Declassified revealed donation from Israeli state-owned arms firm”

https://www.declassifieduk.org/probe-launched-into-westminster-groups-israel-funding/

“WESTMINSTER GROUP TOOK CASH FROM ISRAELI STATE-OWNED ARMS FIRM”

by Martin Williams in Declassified UK @Declassified_UK

@palestine
@israel
@UKLabour

“Revealed: cross-party group of MPs accused of ‘clear breach of the rules’ over donation from weapons company controlled by Israeli government”

https://www.declassifieduk.org/westminster-group-took-cash-from-israeli-state-owned-arms-firm/

#Monterosso, #Italy.

Beautiful landscape, plastered with restrictions, terms and conditions, laws, interdictions, bans, ... you really need to be careful to obey the #rules here.

First beach for me where it is forbidden to change clothing.

I believe "O.C.G." is the gay stylist. Seems they don't care that they've admitted they've kidnapped the wrong person & sent them to a gulag. They've denied the courts on this same topic already.
#Constitutional #Crisis #Crises #keep #piling #up #democracy #dead #PresidentMusk & #OurPutin #AnotherOrban #fascist #dictator #autocrat #Swastikar #death #trap #Tesla #TeslaTakedown #fascism #rules #USA #PutinPuppet #puppet #state of #Russia #traitor #classified #documents https://www.newsweek.com/trump-administration-deportation-error-2073586

A quotation from Banksy

The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It’s people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages. As a precaution to never committing major acts of evil it is our solemn duty never to do what we’re told, this is the only way we can be sure.

Banksy (b. 1974) England-based pseudonymous street artist, political activist, film director
Wall and Piece, “Cops” (2005)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/banksy/76546/

North Korea accuses U.S. of ‘expanding wars’ with eased arms export rules https://www.byteseu.com/939505/ #'expanding #accuses #Arms #business #cartoon #Conflicts #eased #export #KingSalman #KingdomOfSaudiArabia #Korea #LatestNews #Life #north #NorthKorea #of #Opinion #rules #s #SaudiArabia #SaudiSazette #saudigazette #SaudigazetteNewspaper #Sports #Technology #u #wars' #with #World

»#Virtualreality rewrites #rules of the #swarm: Study of locusts in a #virtualenvironment challenges models of #collectivebehavior.« https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adw0733?Metaver.se #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #XR #VR #MR #AR #BeyondPictures

My Mastodon #Introduction!

I am a video game design competition about #communication.

I am taking game pitch #ideas until March 24th.

Finalists will be announced live on March 31st at the Games For Health Europe Conference!

Finalists then have until July 13th to design and develop their communication #games.

A panel of experts will play, score, and critique the games.

All Finalists will receive a #critique of their communication game!

$10,000 in cash prizes will be awarded to the winning games!

The winning games will also be published!

And the winning teams will receive a Mastodon account on games.ngo!!!

#Information about communication and its importance can be found on the contest website.

You will also find the #rules and #FAQs.

We hope you submit a #clever idea for a non-violent videogame about communication.

Follow me for info about the importance of communication:

#conflict resolution
#fact sharing
overcoming #rumours
#healthy #relationships

Contest website:
http://communicating.games

Random coding rule of the day: 32bit variables must be named after a 4 character name, 64bit variables must use an 8 character long one #coding #rules

Random coding rule of the day: 32bit variables must be named after a 4 character name, 64bit variables must use an 8 character long one #coding #rules

Lyrics for the song “Rules” by Doja Cat
#DojaCat #Rules
https://daletra.com/doja-cat/lyrics/rules.html

#Democracy, #Freedom, #FreeSpeech, #Prosperity, #Equality, #Security, #Rules .. everything is under #Siege now by greedy #Oligarchs worldwide.

https://youtu.be/z-b2Db513rU?si=QKYZomYx80zTdBV8

They think they can win because we are divided.

Are we ?

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#Republican #Hatemonger #NancyMace’s #antitrans #CapitolHill #bathroom #rules didn’t make the #House #rules package

Mace introduced her #Antitrans #bathroom #resolution last November, admittedly targeting #Delaware Rep. #SarahMcBride, the first #out #trans #member of #Congress

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #SouthCarolina #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate

https://www.advocate.com/politics/trans-bathroom-missing-house-rules