anondude24

> I'm hoping the Convention of States will succeed and fix this, even if it means rebuilding many institutions at the State level.

Amendments proposed by a convention would still need to be ratified by 38 states. That's a pretty high bar for what you're suggesting.

No. The tech community absolutely has the right to refuse to provide technical means and argue any views they want.

However we're seeing what happens next. Politicians write laws anyway forcing the tech community to do what they want.

I am just saying that in hindsight a bit of cooperation may have resulted in a less privacy invasive solution. I guess with the supreme court ruling it's too late now. The politicians have already won.

I'm not sure bribing kids with smut to learn computer skills is good branding.

> I'd also like to separate the logistics from the morality here. If you believe it's hard to do it without satisfying privacy concerns, totally true! But then the focus should be on finding a good privacy-respecting solution, not just arguing for the status quo.

I like this point. I feel like the tech community just figured politicians would forget about the issue. Instead of working together to develop a solution.

Are you ok with all devices considering the user hostile and coming with heavy encryption and locked bootloaders?

> There should be a clear exemption threshold for low volume indie products, build your own PC, and open source self-install like Linux - since the purpose is to protect ignorant/apathetic consumers.

Then everyone will just follow a YouTube tutorial to reinstall their operating system and bypass restrictions. There were TikTok videos teaching kids how to steal cars, would there not be easy to follow instructions to bypass whatever client side filtering is implemented?

I get where you're coming from, but mandated client side filtering has been tried and has been ridiculed as a complete failure every time. Attempts have been made to market and provide filtering products to parents with little effect, with them either being easy to bypass or difficult to use.

It's actually kind of interesting to see the people who were fighting against client side filtering are now advocating for it, because server side restrictions are the next logical step.

Lithium packs lose capacity or cease to hold a charge as they age. They aren't supposed to burn your house down.

> Children with autism or ADHD might struggle in some ways, but be better off in others. It seems clear that there is no objective reason they are worse than a neurotypical person, so if a "cure" to these conditions was developed, you would have some degree of moral quandary.

I normally lurk HN but created an account because I see a lot of comments about this. Maybe I can offer some insight.

I was diagnosed with high functioning aspergers at a young age. After years of OT and work I am able to live a fairly normal life. I don't talk about it, and I could count the number of people who know on my fingers. It's hard for me to gauge this, but if you met me I doubt you'd realize unless you were looking for it.

To the world I look like I have things together, but there's nothing I wouldn't give to be normal. I don't understand the push to accept it over searching for a cure, if such a thing is possible.