Always had the same reaction to requiring a PIN to refund a transaction on an EFTPOS machine. Someone wants to steal my card and put money on it that’s cool, just stop them from taking it out and they can hold onto that card as long as they want.

“Fiscally conservative” you know the sort who will piss away tax payer money like a drunken sailor while bleating about how people need to tighten their belts and live within their means.

His aprty keeps getting re-elected at a state level because the media talks about them being strong economic managers while they lurch from disaster to disaster sinking the states credit rating and driving away as many young people as they can to pander to a rapidly aging demographic.

*** Deep Breath *** But I shouldn’t complain, could be worse.

Just wait till you find out Eric Abetz is pansexual.

He is fucking an entire state right now pushing a stadium build that’s probably going to end up costing between 5 and 10 times more than the original ridiculous price while championing public service cuts that will result in police, nurse, doctor and teacher shortages that will have generational impacts.

Yeah they should stick to politics where they belong.

Plus a fine issued directly to the C suite, calculated the same way. Calculated on total pretax package and stock values. Make the decision makers fine payers and their “fiscal conservatism” might come in to play.

In a successful society these people would be prosecuted and jailed for crimes against humanity, failing that I wouldn’t mind seeing a few dozen billionaires and millionaires wind up in debtors prison.

Yeah protecting their customers is definitely Apple’s prime motivation… Wouldn’t be about hoovering up even more of their data than the rat finks already do. There is no world in which any of this is pro consumer, it’s governments and corporations teaming up to gang rape consumers under the thin veneer of public safety and there are enough apologists out there trying to find some way of reinterpreting this as anything other than what it is. It doesn’t make children safe; it gets them accustomed to mass surveillance and data insecurity, it doesn’t force porn to become better; it just forces it and its consumers underground, it doesn’t stop criminal activities; it just forces them to become more sophisticated. Actual authoritarian governments have struggled to make this shit work, what makes you think governments as bumbling and inept as the US, UK or Australia are going to be able to succeed where they failed?

On the flip side if the goal is to set up direct feeds for the bulk of the population to have their real identity and banking details associated with every online interaction so it’s all accessible to the various organisations that want to spy on people, well they are smashing that out of the park.

Anecdotally here in Australia less than 10% of my kids year 8 class lost their social media access, the majority lost it for less than a day… Something like 40-50% of their parents loaded their ID onto various verification sites, which part of our age verification laws do you think were important based on that?

Is there some suggestion that Apple is going to do ID attestation or are they just harvesting ID? Either way the whole thing is slimy. They are a private company choosing to exceed their legal requirements, does anyone think this is for the good of their customers?

He is right, accelerating climate change, wealth disparity and economic collapse is likely going to unite a lot of us, probably not the way he suspects though.

It is a really good filter for me, any company that wants to harvest the bogus information I will use to access them had better do a good job of convincing me it’s worth the effort.

I have a similar take on online stores wanting me to create a login to get a shipping cost, unless they are offering a truly unique item, or outrageously good price I just don’t buy anything from them.

If we all had a similar standards these bits of UX fuckery would disappear over time, unfortunately most people don’t even think about it.

Well how many people on Death Row are handing out juicy consultant work when he gets sick of being in local politics (or gets kicked out)?

You forgot that one of the most public corporate mouth pieces pushed hard for this with funding from advertisers who wanted to avoid increased oversight on online gambling advertising. They knew there was only enough political capital to do these things one at a time and wanted to keep the gravy train running. Not to mention they can now say “Well we assume social media companies are filtering out kids so we can advertise online gambling with a clear conscience.” Wonder how many kids living below the poverty line would have their material circumstances improved by any impediment to gambling?