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@workgood@lemmy.dbzer0.com on lemmy.dbzer0.com Open parent

do you think after the age verifcation bs computers will just have locked bios like phones and only boot windows?

i think they will. or worse yet they can make it without bios at all just device tree and all that garbage that phones do. then make it subsction based,filled with ai,cloud streamed only. no apps outside store. but thats too much orwellian stuff for now,i think what will happen is the locking bios thing for now. what do you think?

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@schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de on discuss.tchncs.de Open parent

It used to be that similar (and equally bad) ideas were getting traction because of copyright law, e.g.: en.wikipedia.org/…/Consumer_Broadband_and_Digital… Now other excuses for the same thing have been invented. I wonder which will be next.

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@azimir@lemmy.ml on lemmy.ml Open parent

I don’t feel this push for locking us out of control over our own systems under the cover of “protecting the children with age verification” is anything more than a continued effort to secure a DRM-based hardware system for the MSFT OS and media companies. This smells just like their pushes in the past to steal control over hardware through legal channels. It’s the same war we’ve been fighting for 30 years now. Read up on the Clipper Chip from the 90’s. What’s old is new again.

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MNByChoice in !linux

@MNByChoice@midwest.social · Mar 04

Just adding links for the lazy… Clipper Chip en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip www.cryptomuseum.com/crypto/usa/clipper.htm

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