• RandallFlagg@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    California, as of today, does not require any kind of verification to install an OS (how it’s always been).

    This law gets passed, now they require “attestation”.

    A year or two from now, they’re gonna push for for actual age verification.

    A year or two after that, the government will make a new law saying that your drivers license is no longer a valid form of identification, they’re gonna need a retina scan or some other form of “bio” identification.

    Next thing you know, you’ll be pressing your dick imprint on your PC’s automated Cock-Scanner-v4 encryption tray that pops out of your laptop like a cd-rom drive every time you need to check your email.

    Slippery slope, indeed.

    • Archr@lemmy.world
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      6 hours ago

      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.

      • 0x0@infosec.pub
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        5 hours ago

        Are you pre or post 9/11? It is very obvious that the slope is slippery.

      • ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world
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        4 hours ago

        Non-fallacious forms can also exist. It is fairly obvious that it is warranted in authoritarian regimes to expect progression (regression?).