So now that these names are named, wouldn’t it be easier to sue to government for illegally redacting them as they weren’t legitimate names to be redacted?
It’s harder when you don’t have the names.
Not that anything will happen even if it does… but in a sane world, it would right?
Because it’s not actually about the kids, the kids are just the excuse. That’s all they ever are.
While this might not all be explicit lobby, they are being lobbied, and there’s an exceptional amount of money being put into it in many ways. And if you don’t think millions and millions of dollars are going into things like SPAC’s to support candidates who will support it via side conversations, or other campaign finance tricks around the world then you just don’t know how things work in the US.
Here’s an example of Yoti spending money supporting the Texas laws.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-1122/332630/20241122163435761_23-1122 Amicus Brief.pdf
Yoti In response to COPPA
https://downloads.regulations.gov/FTC-2024-0003-0192/attachment_1.pdf
You really think they spend all that time writing this up and they aren’t having side conversations or nudge nudge wink wink deals going on? The US has a supreme court justice Clarence Thomas blatantly taking money from people and nothing happens.
This is a world wide campaign to support it by these companies who built the tools. There’s is an official industry lobby group as well https://avpassociation.com/
Edit: This is actual lobby record relating to kids online saftey act. https://lda.senate.gov/filings/public/filing/edf57428-13bb-4f91-89af-137bbe898e91/print/
Edit: Here’s Onfido (now Entrust) an explicit lobby: https://lda.senate.gov/filings/public/filing/251cf218-5db4-49bd-8b12-cf3cfa950d15/print/
Edit: Onfido lobbying again in EU over many years: https://www.lobbyfacts.eu/datacard/onfido?rid=193458043836-76&sid=157476
Edit: This is ID.me lobbying the US government, getting hang of the search (which isn’t great) which is millions of dollars in identify verification lobbying. And just think of how much money is being spent behind the money they legally disclosed. Lots.
I am kind of curious what the SpaceX / DoD deal was once the DoD finally took things over back in 2022 or 2023 or whenever it was. Did they just hand off all decision making of what is/isn’t allowed, or did they actually hand off some form of control that lets them manage things?
It’s possible, but unlikely, that SpaceX is helping with the whitelist, but only the DoD can see it, or at least, only the DoD can see it in the simplistic form all laid out without having to do any extra work.
But given the current government… that doesn’t really help in terms of leaks/hacks and the data being considered safe.
He could have tried to top it with a dickslip
A little deportation without due process might be in order as well.
https://dronexl.co/2026/01/31/spacex-starlink-speed-limit-russian-drones/
Serhiy Beskrestnov, known by his call sign “Flash,” is the advisor on defense technology to the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and the same analyst who identified the Starlink connection to the train attack earlier this week.
Beskrestnov’s thread revealed a secondary challenge that is less dramatic but possibly more important for the long-term solution. Ukraine needs to collect complete information on all Starlink terminals in use across the Armed Forces, and soldiers have been reluctant to cooperate.
The problem is straightforward. Many soldiers use volunteer-provided or personally purchased Starlink terminals. These aren’t on any official inventory. Soldiers fear that reporting them to their commanders will result in confiscation, failure to replace them, or other bureaucratic headaches. Beskrestnov was blunt about this, acknowledging that previous attempts to catalog military Starlink use had failed for exactly these reasons.
This matters because any whitelist system only works if you know which terminals belong to friendly forces. Of the estimated 200,000 Starlink terminals operating in Ukraine, fewer than half were procured through official government channels, according to a December 2025 analysis by Militarnyi. The rest exist in a legal gray zone of private purchases, volunteer donations, and foreign sourcing.
Beskrestnov promised to find a way to gather this information that earns soldiers’ trust. He also stressed that SpaceX is directly involved in the process and is actively assisting specialists from the Ministry of Defence.
Okay, I’m going to write this out once because every single post that’s about this ends up with lots of comments like this with tons of upvotes, and this is getting fucking ridiculous.
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST STOP IT WITH THE OMG ELON COULD HAVE DONE THIS EARLIER, HE’S A RUSSIAN NAZI STOOGE WHO IS KILLING UKRAINIANS BECAUSE HE DIDN’T AND THIS IS ONLY BECAUSE OF THE EPSTIEN FILES ETC ETC ETC.
Ukraine did not want to implement a whitelist until now.
Let me repeat that
Ukraine did not want to implement a whitelist until now.
Ukraine and SpaceX have been working together on various counter measures this entire time, but they did not want a whitelist, as they weren’t getting buy in from their soldiers, and having to whitelist the entire country is not an insignificant amount of work.
Soldiers were worried about having their donated or self purchased dishes taken. I’m sure civilians were worried as well. Civilians are dependent on it just as much as the military is, so it has to be a country wide program that comes with it’s own technical challenges.
Russia, being the dicks that they are, started putting Starlink dishes on drones and hitting civilian targets, and these Starlink drones were harder to intercept & jam, so when they realized what was happening, Ukraine immediately asked SpaceX for help because the threat was to large. SpaceX immediately responded with a blanket speed limit to stop the drones from being used, and then worked with Ukraine to finally implement the whitelist.
There is no conspiracy here. This isn’t Elon deciding okay I’ll help you and finally make a whitelist. This has absolutely nothing to do with the Epstein files and Elon wanting to look good.
This is Ukraine detecting a new threat, asking SpaceX for help, and SpaceX helping them to the best of their ability.
Maybe try to be more informed about what is going on than remaining in your (rightful) Elon hate bubble that you can’t see the forest through the trees.
/end rant.
Nah, leave it open to the border, and let Canadians throw rotten tomatoes across. Could also turn it into some sort of plaza with artisan shops and whatnot. Make it a tourist attraction.
Holy shit, China is going to take our Hockey away?!?!?!
I think you underestimate how much lobbying is happening by these firms. It’s a 10s of billions of dollars industry, and it’s up and coming hence why it’s suddenly starting to happen everywhere. It’s not happening because its suddenly a good idea all over the world.
Huge money involved.
It absolutely is a direct cause.
These ID verification companies have been lobbying governments to mandate this so they can earn $$$$
I wish we could hear the gunshots. That ain’t an easy task and I’m so curious how many shots it took.
I’ve done some climbing before (with ropes) and it’s kinda fun being in a slab like that where you can lean in and not always need to have a hand on the wall. But fuck that guy and no ropes. Even watching recorded videos of him doing things makes me incredibly nervous and uncomfortable. I don’t think we should be encouraging what he does the way we do.
, Canadian Tire admitted liability for five of the products under investigation, including Henckels and Cuisinart knife sets,
Ah yes, the classic knife sets that are always $800 but 60% off or whatever.
That’s like industry standard at all box shops, always on discount for never full price.
Most opinions on this topic are very much so based on vibes rather than real experience,
Very much so. You can tell from the way certain people talk about it that they’ve never actually used it in any meaningful way.
I don’t think LLM’s will be doing all the programming in a few years. They do keep getting better, but hallucinations are baked into how the system is designed, and unless they can solve that, it does feel like they are starting to reach a plateau. If they can solve it, I don’t think it would be a token based LLM as we know it today either, it would be a wholly other thing that we would need to reassess.
Also, some jobs won’t want to use it for fear of copyright infringement issues, others won’t want to use it as a mean to stay pure. Did you see any of the Claire Obscure Expedition 33 stuff over 1 AI generated placeholder texture that was accidentally left in the game and promptly removed? They’ve now said they just won’t use AI at all so they can remain pure.
I think learning to program is still a really good option even if it might be a little harder in the near future to get a job than before. In an ideal situation, hopefully you’ve found something you want to build for yourself so you can just keep learning off of that while benefiting from it, I find that usually works better motivation wise than building something random you don’t have an attachment to.
That also gives you a project to talk about in interviews, where you can talk about how you built it, what decisions you made while building it, problems you encountered, how you tackled those problems, the steps to make it publicly available etc etc.
Just don’t be too reliant on AI generated code while learning, or like I said with the website it helped me make, I didn’t learn much. You want to build your skills knowing how to use it as a tool, but not needing to use it at all.
So I’m developer, I do mobile apps, and I do use Claude/GPT.
I could be wrong, but I don’t foresee any imminent collapse of developer jobs, but it does have its uses. I think if anything it’ll be fewer lower end positions, but if you don’t hire and teach new devs, that’s going to have repercussions down the road.
I needed to make a webpage for example, and I’m not a webdev, and it helped me create a static landing webpage. I can tell that the webpage code is pretty shitty, but it does work for it’s purposes. This either replaced a significant amount of time learning how to do it, or replaced me hiring a contractor to do it. But I also am not really any better off at writing a webpage if I needed to make a 2nd one having used it, as I didn’t lean much in the process.
But setting it all up also did have me have to work on the infrastructure behind it. The AI was able to help guide me through that as well, but it did less of it. That I did learn, and would be able to leverage that for future work.
When it comes to my actual mobile work, I don’t like asking it do anything substantial as the quality is usually pretty low. I might ask it to build a skeleton of something that I can fill out, I’ll often ask it’s opinions on a small piece of code I wrote and look for a better way to write it, and in that case it has helped me learn new things. I’ll also talk to it about planning something out and getting some insights on the topic before I write any code.
It gives almost as many wrong/flawed answers as right answers if there’s even a tiny bit of complexity, so you need to know how to sift through the crap which you won’t know if you aren’t a developer. It will tell you APIs exist that don’t. It will recommend APIs that were deprecated years ago. The list goes on and on and on. This also happened while I was making the webpage, so my developer skills were still required to get to the end product I wanted.
I can’t see how it will replace a sizeable chunk of developers yet, but I think if used properly, it could enhance existing devs and lead to fewer hires needed.
When I hear things like 30% of Microsoft code is now written by AI, it makes sense why shit is breaking all the time and quality is going down. They’re forcing it to do what it can’t do yet.
He was just running it for himself, and powerful men happened to benefit and use it. But it was FOR himself. Problem solved right? Great job FBI!
So the link I posted was about proving Waymo truly can remote control them if needed even though they deny it, but I would be pretty surprised if Tesla said it wasn’t possible, because their car has the “summon” feature and literally any owner can remotely drive their car with a forward/back button. So regardless of if they do or don’t, they clearly can.
Bought, didn’t know it was out!