No-one seems to have considered that the Internet is international, but ID documents are not. I cannot ever get a US drivers license, and so any simplistic age/ID-gating based upon that document excludes roughly 8 billion citizens of the Internet, not just the approx 300 million (a mere 3.75% of the global population) population of the USA.
An ID document based system (if you really want it to work, and I don't) needs to allow Tonga, Ukrainian, German, Brazilian, Chinese, Nigerian, and British formal IDs ... and all the rest, or you're excluding more than just a few LGBTQ+, Black, Native, or non-Caucasian people locally.
Why are US internet businesses cutting off over 95% of their possible market by tolerating this shit?
Seems pretty clear that part of the meal for the brain worm included JFK Jr's soul.
Or at least, the part that enabled him to distinguish fact from deadly fantasy.
What's next? Email signatures, government websites, OOO messages just in time for the midterms? Or if trumpbaby doesn't manage to invent an emergency in time for the next presidential election... the next presidential election.
Nothing is off limits to this bunch of Nazis.
I have a dim recollection of a time and a technology that meant that I owned an actual copy of the media I wanted to... and could put said physical media in a device and display it on a screen with no internet connection.
What was that archaic media? Oh yeah, DVD.
On demand sports and news-comedy shows? Who cares, there'll be another one along in a week, just the same as the last one.
No, I'm not in the UK either... but both the cited MPs are. If any here are constituents of those MPs, they should be writing to the MPs to suggest it. And, quite frankly, I'm surprised that Sewards (who's on the relevant parliamentary group) hasn't already thought of it and done it.
We’ve got a long road to travel and millions in lobbying dollars to breakthrough before any real progress is made.
Or we (and the MPs) could suggest that the UK Trading Standards office (part of the government) takes a test case to court over some major title that has fallen foul of the existing legislation. No lobbying needed.
It's funny how people's own knowledge of a language (or at least a West-Atlantic derivative of one) means they're an expert on what 'everyone knows'.
I've been speaking English for over 50 years and never heard the 'well known' term 'Pho' before. Which puts it on a par with 'Sabzi' as far as I'm concerned.
like cozying up to talented engineers and taking singular credit for their work
There's the reason very few people know the actual engineers and day-to-day managers of SpaceX and Tesla are.
Musk is NOT a rocket scientist or electrical or mechanical engineer. He's a meme artist; and a piss-poor one at that.
In this world of milquetoast mainstream media in the US, you criticise TechDirt for saying something that happens to end up under the fold? OMG have you got bigger fish to fry!
As a SAR volunteer I endorse the above comment!
The Brits?
No, some government wonks in Westminster, London, England will demand to differ. The rest of us are still sane.
I can't figure out whether you're supporting Mike's position sarcastically, or just don't understand a single word he wrote.
US sites for US people
No-one seems to have considered that the Internet is international, but ID documents are not. I cannot ever get a US drivers license, and so any simplistic age/ID-gating based upon that document excludes roughly 8 billion citizens of the Internet, not just the approx 300 million (a mere 3.75% of the global population) population of the USA. An ID document based system (if you really want it to work, and I don't) needs to allow Tonga, Ukrainian, German, Brazilian, Chinese, Nigerian, and British formal IDs ... and all the rest, or you're excluding more than just a few LGBTQ+, Black, Native, or non-Caucasian people locally. Why are US internet businesses cutting off over 95% of their possible market by tolerating this shit?
The USA might be racist...
... but WTF has that got to do with the Indian government's actions and backpedalling?
souls and worms
Seems pretty clear that part of the meal for the brain worm included JFK Jr's soul. Or at least, the part that enabled him to distinguish fact from deadly fantasy.
BBC reporting
There is now a BBC News article on the subject of the letter which they have now received.
What's next? Email signatures, government websites, OOO messages just in time for the midterms? Or if trumpbaby doesn't manage to invent an emergency in time for the next presidential election... the next presidential election. Nothing is off limits to this bunch of Nazis.
Poor memory?
I have a dim recollection of a time and a technology that meant that I owned an actual copy of the media I wanted to... and could put said physical media in a device and display it on a screen with no internet connection. What was that archaic media? Oh yeah, DVD. On demand sports and news-comedy shows? Who cares, there'll be another one along in a week, just the same as the last one.
No, I'm not in the UK either... but both the cited MPs are. If any here are constituents of those MPs, they should be writing to the MPs to suggest it. And, quite frankly, I'm surprised that Sewards (who's on the relevant parliamentary group) hasn't already thought of it and done it.
And here's the link I would have added if there was an edit button.
Let me find them a ladder to get out of the hole they've just dug!
No shit, sherlock.
It's funny
It's funny how people's own knowledge of a language (or at least a West-Atlantic derivative of one) means they're an expert on what 'everyone knows'. I've been speaking English for over 50 years and never heard the 'well known' term 'Pho' before. Which puts it on a par with 'Sabzi' as far as I'm concerned.
Susquehanna?
Who?
Legal Eagle (Devin Stone) might have something to say about that choice of catchphrase!
GOP = genital observation perverts?
Why are the GOP and, it seems, the broader right-wing of American politics so clearly OBSESSED with people's genitals?
SpaceX & Tesla
MSM problem?
In this world of milquetoast mainstream media in the US, you criticise TechDirt for saying something that happens to end up under the fold? OMG have you got bigger fish to fry!