#internet-regulation

#internet-regulation

HF1434, Minnesota's proposed age-verification bill, simply won't protect children. It mandates that websites hosting speech that is protected by the First Amendment for both adults and young people verify users' identities, often through government IDs or biometric data. The bill's definition of speech that lawmakers deem harmful to minors is notoriously broad—broad enough to sweep in lawful, non-pornographic speech about sexual orientation, sexual health, and gender identity.

Grant said such nudify services, which allow users to make images of real people appear naked using AI, have had a devastating effect in Australian schools. We took enforcement action in September because this provider failed to put in safeguards to prevent its services being used to create child sexual exploitation material and were even marketing features like undressing any girl,' and with options for schoolgirl' image generation and features such as sex mode,' Grand said in a statement.

If the recent embrace of seemingly-and only seemingly-autonomous machines is any indication, something much less chic than the future premised in " The Matrix " awaits us. During the 1999 film's sequence of down-the-rabbit-hole scenes, Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) flips the channel on the late-nineties metropolis as Neo (Keanu Reeves) knows it, revealing it to be a "computer-generated dream world" that pacifies a dozing human race whose bioelectricity is extracted by machines, for machines, circa 2197.

The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a Texas law mandating age verification for accessing sexually explicit websites, marking a legal precedent for imposing restrictions on adult consumers.