A misguided bill that would have required many people to show ID to get online has died without getting a floor vote in the California legislature, where key deadlines for bill passage passed this weekend. Thank you to our supporters for helping us to kill this wrongheaded bill, especially those of you who took the time to reach out to your legislators.
What a stupid plan
Good, let’s keep it dead globally. This is never going to end well for anyone from any political side if this kind of thing gets implemented.
Until 6 months from now
The problem is that we keep seeing these kinds of laws come back. Just look at chat control.
We’re celebrating too soon.
Looks like a law (SB 976) requiring ID verification for social media is heading to Newsom to be signed into law (but hopefully will get shut down?).
The exact kind of verification required isn’t explicitly stated in the bill and would be up to Rob Bonta (CA Attorney General) to decide.
Of course Bonta uses the classic “think of the children, approach”:
Bonta, on the other hand, encourages the public to think of the welfare of children at risk from social media addiction.
California government gets it right way more often than wrong, since it went solidly Democrat. Not perfect, nothing can be, but leaning towards the correct direction. Here it is again.
They get right everything that is not pro-tech billionaires. All of that they miss 100% of time.
