Thread 717506001

What are you going to do when Steam, Twitch, Discord, and other online gaming related services force you to upload an ID to play/buy/chat?

>>717506001 (OP)
Not use the services? You hysteric shitskins are so sad.

Stop using em

>>717506001 (OP)
Stop using it and let them go bankrupt.

>>717506061
>just stop using something you want to! The problem is you, not the institutions
>just stop buying from online storefronts, the biggest platform modern citizens use for all their goods and services!
Are you asking yourself "how does this affect him personally"?

like asmon said it will happen but also will end up just being facilitated by respective country governments so some random company doesn't just get access directly to your data and instead receives a token that can be used for verification

>>717506001 (OP)
upload my ID. I'm not a paranoid schizoid

>>717506286
You will be the first to suffer.

>>717506001 (OP)
>play/buy/chat
Pirate/pirate/why the fuck would anyone want to chat with modern "gamers"

>>717506285
...and you're cool with the government linking your IP/accounts with you?

I will attempt a refund on my entire account

>>717506458
my government knows all my data since birth, there was no backing out of that one

>>717506001 (OP)
>Steam
Make a list of all the games I own on Steam, then pirate them.
>Twitch
I only use it for vods. If that doesn't work, then I can always watch the VODS uploaded to youtube.
>Discord
I check it every 6-8 months to look at pics of Gaslands minis, so it's not a big loss.

>>717506286
>Hello Sir this the NHS, we have a report you spent 101 Hours playing video games, please report to the nearest addiction center for internment, you will comply.
>Meanwhile we are freezing you bank account, for your own safety.

>>717506397
>chat
>why
So you can tell if you're not playing against actual bots.

>>717506001 (OP)
>Steam
Pirate
>Twitch
VPN
>Discord
mIRC

>>717506270
No I'm asking you why you're sharing your opinions on the internet when you're this retarded.

>>717506001 (OP)
i simply won't use them, my principles come before my entertainment

>>717506001 (OP)
By that time my country's government will have a method for me to be able to generate a zero-knowledge proof if I'm old enough for the service and I'll pass that to the service. Thanks to that setup I don't lose any privacy and it keeps the annoying kids out.

I'm over 18 and my Steam has a CC linked.
If that's not good enough for them they can close my account. This of course will result in me never dealing with them or any company they do business with probably forever. Even once they stop the absurdity.
Twitch and Discord are junk I do not use them.
GTA 6 / Take Two will not be getting my business as they never sorted the hacker problem on PC. I'll go play indy games, go retro or quit the hobby entirely.
Not getting my IDs stolen so some scummy corporation can resell my ID to a fraudster.

>>717506498
But now they'll know it's you posting on 4chan, what you searched on your search engines (even duckduckgo and brave). Like before they could have put 2 and 2 together, but now they have all they need, no further investigation.

>>717506458
they already do this. i know you aren't naive enough to think otherwise

>>717506001 (OP)
>what are you going to do when service start forcing things you don't like?
Stop using it? How the fuck are you even thinking about asking this stupid question?

>>717506726
GTA 5 (Online) - Game I'm referring to.

>>717506751
>But now they'll know it's you posting on 4chan
I think they are aware already dude, you know what an ISP is?

>>717506001 (OP)
I will stop using them.
First of all I will either chargeback or demand recompense for shutting me out of a service I paid for.
Contact lawmakers in my country.
And then just move to a platform that does not require it.

Also thanks for reminding me, I need to buy a few more hard drives to start making backups of my software and media.

>>717506001 (OP)
Not use them

>>717506556
Drama Queen in full paranoid meltdown

>>717506792
Anyone can be using your device, if they want to arrest you for saying or looking up [X] their work is expedited significantly when they have your ID on file.

>>717506751
There's a big difference between my Internet company and a video game company holding my details. Your going to find these game company's have fuck all liability comparatively.
You do you though bud I'm sure it'll go great.

>>717506751
Snowden told the world this in 2013, they know every single thing you do on your computer for the last 20 years.

>>717506909
I'm not as underage as you think I am.

>>717506909
Yeah I'm not putting myself in a compromised position because some future clown politician from the left or right decided "he ran down a pedestrian in GTA". Good luck to anyone who thinks governments don't abuse power, I've worked with government in a capacity. They fucking do even if its not policy because you get "Carens" in government.

>>717506001 (OP)
>Steam
Upload my ID because Steam is useful, though that will likely never happen in the first world.
>Discord and Twitch
Who cares?
YouTube already has my ID so I can upload videos longer than 15 minutes.

>>717507081
My dad works for Nintendo and he also told me this.

>>717506286
Shit like discord has been losing money since its creation. It's a massive investment with the hope to get that money later. And they won't be getting money from straightforward transactions with consenting clients. When there are massive amounts of money being thrown at something you have to think "who will pay in the end?" And the answer is always the non-elite.

>>717506872
>I..It..I'll never happen, the slippery slope is a logical fallacy
>etc

>>717507086
>YouTube already has my ID
Rest in peace, comerade.

>>717507086
And it's because compliant, passive cattle like you that everyone will get fucked.

>>717506001 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WNQQdPPFki4

>>717507256
Isn't Discord trying to go public so it can sell out all the way?

>>717506001 (OP)
I'll just go use IRC + Mumble

>>717507417
I don't know I haven't seen news about it for years

>>717507372
Good. You sound like you need to get laid.

>>717506872
Its literally the first step they need to turn your country into china.
Do you think china and their social points system would work if they could not lock people out of daily activities?
And guess how you can target and lock people out of... I dunno, internet usage or access to entertainment? You would need to be able to know the ownership of any and all accounts with biometrics, so you don't lock out randoms.

>>717507372
mate they already have everything on you if you use this site in any reasonable capacity. it's not actually anonymous.

>>717507608
Will do xister

>>717506556
Imagine all the cuties you would meet at that addiction center. A bunch of lonely neets together in the same building. It'd be worth it.
SEND ME IN CHIEF!

>>717507608
Why do leftists poopoo bodyshaming or lifestyle choice shaming yet dogpile on virgin insults because of how they assume someone's looks, popularity, or personality online?

I'm cynical enough to say that if tomorrow trump releases the epstein files and on it is video evidence of literally every single person in government including the janitors visiting epstein's island, the american people would all still go to work the next day and it would be business as usual. Maybe some unemployed college kids would protest at 11am after they wake up from their hangovers. There is no such thing as revolutions anymore. People are too comfortable and don't want to lose what they have.
But if youtube / discord / twitch / steam etc start asking people to upload their IDs just to engage with their platform at a basic level I really don't know if the majority of people globally are going to be okay with that. I would be surprised either way.

>>717507646
>bank account, real name, address is linked to Comcast for billing
>needed to provide ID for initial signup
>government can't find me because raisins
>once a game has my ID, now they know where I'm at and can shut down my Internet access

>>717507646
People at the same time despise the state and have blind trust in it.

>>717506001 (OP)
>zoomers never had to use fake ID’s

>>717507681
They do know but they need an actual legal chain to punish you for what you do here they can’t take you to court and just go
>yeah this guy said Kike on 4chan we know because we’re illegally spying on everyone lol

>>717507885
Shut the fuck up it's not the same

I'm gonna be mighty annoyed if Steam asks me to verify my age.

>>717506458
The EU system doesn't do that.

>>717507845
Why do normal people assume /pol/ people don't have sex? Maybe it's because women tend to not be attracted to someone who goes
>IT'S THE JEWS AND THE RAND CORPORATION AND THE REVERSE VAMPIRES AND GLOBOHOMO THAT MAKE ME SMELL LIKE THIS
If you could talk normally, I wouldn't assume this.

>>717506207
>>717506069
>>717506061

Based but what is the replacement for Discord if I like having teams?

/vg/?

>>717508031
Kek

>>717506001 (OP)
>Steam
I'll pirate
>Twitch
Don't use
>Discord
Haven't used in like a year

As for any other services I'll either stop using them or if I really need to I'll use AI to generate a few pics of not Ryan Gosling and use those. In fact I think it's a good idea to do this now before the age verification thing becomes draconian and requires ID, linking social security number, face and dick pics.

>>717507980
Yes they can and have arrested people for saying kill kikes before because they're retarded enough to think they're tech savy because they started dabbling in cybersecurity after their futa ntr games got shafted on itch.io

>>717507986
>literally referred to cutting off people's Internet access and being limited by the fact that they can't be sure whose account it is
>Comcast and most other providers require ID to prove who you are
>it's not the same

>>717506001 (OP)
I don't use any of those services.

>>717506001 (OP)
>and then suddenly, for no reason at all, piracy increased 10 fold

>>717507646
PUBG ban reports really do showcase nothing will stop Changs from cheating online not even device bans. 20k at least monthly device bans. Double account bans.

>>717506001 (OP)
I simply won't use them

>>717507885
If anything you can use a rent receipt to make the contract and you can pay wire transfer from a different account every time, if you so wish.

The issue here is every Tom, Dick and Harry private corpo having access to your biometric data.
And then the state requiring them to cough all the things you do on their platforms, having a self actualizing file on you, and noting on your permanent record stuff like when in 2018-10-25 you said "fuck niggers" on a private message.

>>717506001 (OP)
>Newell's ass steam
>Shitch
>Trannycord
I'm not a mentally ill cultist so nothing changes

Something I haven’t really seen people talking about is them using age verification for anime and video games. Imagine Japanese companies trying to release anime games and payment processors stepping in and saying
>our AI says your 22 year old girl is 14 age her up

>>717507883
>There is no such thing as revolutions anymore
There is no such thing as grassroots revolutions. They still happen but they require an outside actor bankrolling it with both cash and media presence, as well as government inept enough to let it escalate without biting the bullet and stomping it violently in infancy.

>>717508646
>our AI says your 22 year old girl is 14 age her up
They already do that without AI. AI won't change anything, anon.

>>717508646
Payment processors don't need to do any AI verifications. They already operate on a "I know when I see it" basis.

>>717508493
>your permanent record

You realize people got on fine just swell before kike shit like Discord or Steam right? If they go too far, people will just quit them and be better off for it.

>>717506001 (OP)
I don't use any of those services.

>>717506726
This is exactly how I feel. Modern games suck dick. They're awful, and they've been on thin ice with me for years. It wouldn't take much for me to just say fuck it and quit buying modern games forever. I play my retro stuff more these days anyways.

>>717509013
No good games require more than my EGA card.

>>717506608
>VPN
VPNs will be blocked on all major websites and programs and they've already done so in the UK with twitter. You're delusional if you believe otherwise.

>>717508301
This just obfuscates it and means that one provider (ie one target) has all the valuable ID info. It WILL be compromised. If you've never seen the governments attempts at this (id.me) I can forgive you, but their security is laughably pathetic I assure you.

>>717509250
The UK literally arrests people for talking about meatballs. They don't count.

>>717509295
>one provider (ie one target) has all the valuable ID info
What are you talking about?

>>717509250
>Just take their voices completely
Wonder how that will work out for them.

>>717508820
They certainly dont need to, but then again you dont need to scab everyone's IDs just to confirm they are allowed to watch some content, yet here we are.

>>717509336
If everyone is going through a sole identifier that approces these requests, it stops other businesses from getting that info, but it ensures that all of that info exists at one place for hackers to target.

>>717506001 (OP)
Stop using them.
If enough people do the same then they’ll have to change it back.

>>717509452
You mean the single place of the government or your bank, which already has your ID information?

>>717509452
This is assuming the data is cached, which it doesn't have to be.

>>717507883
>There is no such thing as revolutions anymore.
This is what the French look like if you want to raise the retirement age by two years (which would bring them closer to the EU average rather than being on the lower end).

Now imagine if the French government suggested something actuallly dystopian.

>>717509518
The government doesnt do that shit and they won't do it in the future. They'll farm the process out to a third party. This is literally what the US does RIGHT NOW (Id.me)

>>717509597
My government certainly does. And my bank too.

Again, they already have your identity information and hackers would love to breach either one of them.

>>717509569
>doesn't have to be
But it will. Either due to malice or incompetence.

>>717506001 (OP)
Man. I really don't do anything. While I think the argument if you aren't doing anything wrong then you have nothing to hide is incredibly stupid, I flatly don't even say the magical nigger word. I am as plain and boring as a plain bagel. I hope this shit turns around but man do I feel so unaffected by all this.

>>717506001 (OP)
Do what you want cuz a pirate is free.
You are a pirate!

>>717509668
Government info gets hacked and leaked all the time. Even modern ones like California and their gun owner database. You've clearly never worked with government tech if you think this shit is state kf the art or secure. Especially anything pertaining to civilian data. That shit is minimum budget.

>>717508152
Sure you can give up your entire music playlist (spotify will delete your account if you don't give ID). Give up on many multiplayer games you play few friends you have, give up tutorials and guides on youtube and reddit, give up visiting most of small websites cause they simply can not afford to handle ID verification. But what will you do when more important services require it like shopping or anything job related? Will you just stop ordering stuff online? Will you quit your job and become homeless? Will you isolate yourself from literally everyone and eventually become truly alone?
Most people would rather be guinea pigs than die on the streets. Most people can not handle the future as a hermit in the woods with no human connection.
And don't give me that shit how it does not affect you or its just for pedos. If it affects your family and friends, it WILL affect you as well because of that. Anyone who thinks they will never be affected is a fool. We are all connected one way or another and if affects people you love and care it does affect you.
Also, I remember few months back an incident about graphene phone and Spanish police and how valuing privacy makes you a criminal in their eyes. You know what will be the next step? Making the denial of credentials illegal and further reach of requirements of ID.
What that means is that soon people who do care about privacy and are willing to give up many things for privacy are soon to be seen as criminals by government. Where there is a chance that in the future, people who refuse to give out IDs are prosecuted just for that. And it will be much easier to deduct who that is if majority of people are no longer anonymous.

Its easy to find a needle in the haystack if every straw of hay is indexed and catalogued and all you have to do now is look for anomalies.

>>717509709
Stand on principle, even if youbhave nothing to hide that doesn't mean the additional infringements at worst/ inconveniences at best are acceptable and should be apathetically welcomed. And by "stand on principle" all that you need to do is text or write a senator, call somrone once to complain, or shit just spread the word to others and inform them.

>>717509518
Dude ID is a lot more dynamic now, the real horror story is the state requesting updated info of your activities in almost real time to other ID requiring private corps.

>they already can do that
Not really, my registered name on Github for example is something like McAiley McCracker, from Panama, which oddly is not my real name nor the place i live.

>>717509939
>spotify
I'm not a retard so my whole playlist is on my pc

>>717508031
Are you not occasionally asked if you're over 18 when looking through the store anyway?

>>717506001 (OP)
i think me spending thousands of dollars on video games should be enough to let steam know i'm not a teenager

>>717510167
What are you talking about?

>>717510310
Yes but that's not really an age verification since there's no proof involved.

>>717507885
Oh wow, I just connected to a mobile hotspot, or just bought a phone registered to john doe.

>>717510353
https://www.sportskeeda.com/esports/fortnite-5-times-kids-stole-parents-money-buy-cosmetics
Sorry pal, that's not proof enough these days. Look guy, just be a good goy and upload your ID, then we can put this all behind us.

>>717510169
If youtube is doing ID check for US IPs despite this being a UK law, what makes you think you're safe?

>>717510454
Some of us have real internet service.

>>717510270
But your gf, sister, mother, grandmother or any woman in your life might. And thanks to that, that's one match less they need to flip down as soon the government is about to play a game of "guess who" with everyone. You are on it too whether you like it or not and you not having and caring about spotify does not matter.

>>717510404
Sure, but the point is that if your account is 19 years old and legally I believe it's not allowed to change the owner of the steam account, this means the owner is in fact 18+ and any further checks are not needed.

>>717510581
Reading comprehension?

>>717506001 (OP)
once i am forced out of using most of the internet the way i want, i will be free

>>717510454
And who is sending you service for that hotspot?

>>717508060
lmao Eurocuck...you are all so naive.

>>717510630
Do you think these situations do not apply to you because you're not involved in the US or UK? Because you're in for a rude awakening if so.

>>717510732
Post proofs.

>>717510621
My gf already is thinking of caving if her Roku's youtube locks her out without ID. Is a long term relationship the worst thing for opsec? Brb, gonna delete my Facebook. Oh shit, Meta owns Instagram now?

>>717510863
>Oh shit, Meta owns Instagram now?
Has since fucking 2012.

>makes the internet not usable anymore
>everyone meets up irl and shitposts there instead

>>717509939
If shit gets that bad i'll just turn to crime

>>717511034
Based honestly

>>717510518
my steam account is legal in 2 more years anyhow

>>717506458
the governement can at any time subpoena my ISP for a post I made on 4chan and have the IP link back to my house and that's been a thing since forever
>muh VPN
most keep logs for illegal activities
>nuh huh not mine
not for long otherwise it'll get blacklisted by the gov

Think about it, the gamers are the demographic most at risk from these measures due to their natural rebellious behaviour.
First they link all your accounts to your ID, so that any action you make online can be traced back to you. Then any 'wrongthink' you do will be added to your dossier. You probably don't even need to misbehave for it, little shots misreporting you because you hurt their feelings will be enough. I wouldn't be surprised if they slowly incorporate a credit system to the west they can sneakily remove privileges from for bad behaviour. Call that guy a faggot? Your groceries get a 10% markup for a week so you learn your lesson.

>>717511356
>not for long otherwise it'll get blacklisted by the gov
We can stop this

>>717508301
I dunno I don't think I'll trust this corpo art woman with my info.

>>717511394
Lol. Lmao even.

>>717506286
>Dude just give your photo ID to some random company
>What could go wrong?

>>717511394
>hello misters and misses at the senate here is my bill proposition to allow interconectivity to services outside of our country so that I can bypass regulations you've pushed in recently
that's how delulu you sound

>>717511356
>subpoena my ISP

Why not cut the hassle and make it a regular thing, now they can avoid the legal procedures and make it a pipeline process.

>>717506001 (OP)
DAGA KOTOWARU SAAR!

Probably request a full refund, and if not given go through small claims for it.

>>717511493
You stand up and tell the proposals no. Even after something is passed the fight isnt over, look at how many UK citizens are not taking the Online Saftey Act sitting down

>>717511513
i'd rather have government handle it than a private company

>>717506001 (OP)
I simply will no longer use said services. Steam is the only one there of any particular value anyway.

>>717506001 (OP)
start pirating games like crazy and only using image boards to speak and play with like minded individuals
>but what about new games
who cares? 99% of new games are shit

>>717511609
Dont worry, the government will still be the ones coming to your door at the end of the day

>>717511429
First of all, it's not a third-party application. It's a government application. So if you're a citizen of France, your age verification app will be published by the government of France. Aka the same government that issues your ID.

And note that they cannot tie site access to your ID because the data flow between the government and the application stops at step 3.

I'm not going to submit my ID to nhentai everytime I have a wank in incognito (so multiple times a day)
This is not feasible

>>717511429
It's honestly insane that they expect people to accept this level of violation.

>>717511750
you should thank the gov to break your porn addiction

>>717506001 (OP)
Use an ai picture. Or pirate everything fuck are they gonna stop me.

>>717511750
Then submit it once and wank publicly

>>717511750
Fuck Virginia and Texas for gating off pornhub to begin with.

>>717511743
It doesn't matter if it's the sun king himself writing the code for the app, it's still a third party to the user-website interaction. You are also required to trust the software to not keep data or interaction with no proof.

>>717506001 (OP)
Fake ID as long as I can manage with it. It'll be a while I figure.
After that I'll go full pirate again.

I'm honestly excited. I wasn't expecting the dystopian overreach to happen when I was still young enough to stab a cop breaking into my house, but hear we are. I cannot wait to take a bunch of pigs with me.
Remember: The enforcers are as much the enemy as the ones who wrote the law.

>>717511825
Kikehub should have been banned globally. Nothing of value would be lost. Ban all cuckshit.

>>717506001 (OP)
Fake IDs or use someone else's ID

It's fucking depressing watching this go through the EU and US. I know it's just a matter of time until it hits SA too. Surely you guys can flip this situation around somehow, right?

>>717511938
>both public and private trackers now require you to submit your ID
what's your next step?

>>717507404
>open your mouth
>move camera around to get multiple angles
No way in FUCK are they not training an AI off this. Kenny was right
https://youtu.be/LFDP5Eb2sQI?t=2m17s

>>717511938
You type like a child molesting redditor. Its people like you that caused this in the first place.

Korea has been doing e-IDs for a long time and it works just fine for them
You're just mad that it will take more effort to get a wank off now

>>717506069
based
>>717508085
im still using teamspeak, ventrilo and IRC

>>717511994
Maybe? Is there like a batman signal but for The Anonymous? If anyone can do and has most to lose from this, it would be them. Do they even still exist?

>>717512028
And yet it's still better than your faggoty drivel

>>717511918
>You are also required to trust the software to not keep data or interaction with no proof.
Phones are not black boxes. You can just sniff the traffic that goes in and out of your phone if you want to see what kind of data and how much of it gets transferred. And security researches do this all of the time.

This is also why all of those "Facebook secretly listens to your conversations for ad targeting" claims are so ridiculous. People have tested that a phone with Facebook installed in a quiet room sends out as little traffic as a phone with Facebook installed in a room with a conversation. But idiots like you have this notion that applications can do whatever they want without leaving a trace so we can't trust anything because phones are magic.

>>717512028
>The people who will resist this is who caused it
No. It was the retards who believed the "muh kids" bullshit who caused this.
If more politicians were afraid for their lives this would not be happening.

'member when porn sites asked for a credit card number to verify you were an adult?
good times

>>717512158
No because I've never used a paid porn site.

>>717512123
I think you need your context cleared.

>>717506001 (OP)
they'll never do this unless forced to by law. it would be too damaging to user retention. there would be tremendous pushback by companies if this was ever considered.

>>717512010
Why would pirates do this?
If a tracker did this its an obvious honeypot
Are you retarded?

>>717506270
Why are you buying new games? they are all shit

>>717512158
>he paid for porn

>>717506726
Honestly I'm more concerned about epic. If steam does this, then bummers, I stop using it, I barely spent money on it anyway. On epic I have hundreds of games for free, I would play them, of they won't allow me then it's piracy.

>>717512225
What an amazing rebuttal.

>>717506001 (OP)
I'm going to call their offices and do this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m8Ln1yqeJE

>>717512293
I agree but that doesn't mean we should go 1984 on the virtual Gamestop.

>>717512303
SAAR

>>717509575
They'd do nothing because they're french and inherently cucked. Imagine being proud of getting your car and apartment windows demolished every other week and not being able to sleep from all the noise. They chimped out on retirement age because they worship the boomers that are replacing them with shitskins, they chimped out when Saint Nigger died in America, they chimped out when a right wing gov came a smidgen too close to winning, radio silence when Chechens and Nafris had their race war.

>>717512131
No. That's a smokescreen. This shit is leftoid central. Its all coming out of leftoid shitholes like the UK and the EU.

>>717512089
Anonymous got coopted like a decade ago by troonery and alphabets.
Not exaggerating. They used the name anonymous and made "official" socials for it in order to undermine it as a symbol. Then gave it to faggoty libs for their causes.
If anything like it were to come around again, it would be under a new name.

Keep in mind "Anonymous" was never supposed to have official organization. It was always just whatever 4chan decided to fuck around with in a loosely organized net. Like pointing a bunch of cats in the same vague direction.

>>717512410
Say what you want, Gabe never gave me a free game to play.

>>717512558
this fat nigger gave plenty of his own games for free, try not being born since yesterday

>>717512420
The more damning one was when they burnt down paris for like 4 months in a row and the government still put in the carbon pricing and Macaroni is still in charge.
Protesting is all well and good when it achieves something. When it does nothing you know you need to do something more extreme. Take those guillotines out of the museum and use them again.

>>717512481
This pretty much, the moment they were all arrested during the march etc and were in prison, the FBI set up a new anonymous unit to pretend to be them.

>>717512558
>Portal 2
>Left for Dead 2
>Team Fortress 2
>Unreal Tournament
Steam gave me some good gsmes for free.

>>717512558
Literally less than a year ago.

>>717512616
Examples? I never got any.

>>717512647
https://youtu.be/692VEA8Btl4
Appearantly a Blackrock CEO was just recently killed, but the media doesn't seem to be reporting it like Luigi Mangione's incident.

>>717512716
>>717512702
Lmao, overrated goyslop and multiplayer slop. Nevermind then.

>>717512437
The UK, Australia and EU, even the US are using muh kids as an excuse, sure. But it is fooling people. They are going along with it.
Its not even "leftoid" its "control seeking governments" which reaches across the aisle. Every sociopathic politician and greedy CEO wants this shit. They love the thought of being able to say "you get to be unpersoned because you criticized me fucking children, no housing privileges for you" Practically salivate at the thought of being able to ruin the lives of anyone who dares type "AIPAC is bad" with the push of a button.

>>717512817
Name a good EGS giveaway.

>>717506001 (OP)
my steam account is old enough to vote
I think I can probably skip the age verification

>>717512702
>Steam gave you what Timmy can't
LITERALLY CANNOT MAKE THIS SHIT UP

>>717512817
Excuse me xir, you bring those goalposts back here right now!

>>717512817
>Lmao, overrated goyslop and multiplayer slop
we are onto you buddy

>>717506270
>for all their goods and services
buddy if you use the web for all purchases you have to only blame yourself

>>717512798
Blackstone
Much less important.
Still an evil company that buys up real estate for investment purposes.
But its not Larry Fink of Blackrock.

>>717512871
See, that would make sense, but you trust logic too heavily compared to companies who froth at the mouth wanting your PIIs to begin with.

>>717512862
First you define good because you would just say it's not. Anyway, he gave away his own games than no one buys anymore, while on epic you get recent games that are not made by them. That's the difference. On steam you still have to spend money to play games.

>>717506001 (OP)
Spend $5/mo on a vpn and end up saving $$$$$$$$$$$

>>717513008
>First you define good because you would just say it's not.
A game worth playing and not slop.

>WTF I HAVE TO PROVE I'M AN ADULT TO BUY CIGARETTES NOW?
>That's some bullshit! My grandpapi could get raw cocaine from the doc at age 12!

>>717506285
haha yeah
except the government will outsource it to a private company to offload responsibility and accountability

>>717512897
You moved the goalposts first, because giving away a 20 years old game that you yourself made and no one buys it anymore it's the equivalent of giving away 3rd party games that are recent and they sell for full price, right.

>>717512989
Shit, thanks for correcting me.

>>717513103
If he really cared he could've just said that free epic games are pointless because they clearly don't translate into real sales and profit for Epic as a storefront. Hope this is what you were looking for.

If for the sake of argument we assume that they'll do as they say, then is there any justifiable reason they would need to keep the id after confirming? Can't they just delete it immediately after confirming so they don't hold the data?

>>717509939
you'll have bigger problems if it comes that far

>>717513103
I will own up to not reading the reply chain and just responded to the one comment, but the claim I did respond to was >>717512558

>>717513346
They will just say they need it to protect children and all will be waived faster than a cope evoking qualified immunity.

>>717513346
Of course they could, but they wont. Because it is very saleable and is evidence in case of fraud or if tge identified user commits wrongthink.

>>717513489
*cop

>>717513376
Well, technically I missed that game so indeed Gabe never gave me a free game.

>>717507760
Do NOT stick your dick in crazy

These companies have to pay a third party company to be able to confirm your ID. That's the whole reason this is happening: money, as usual.

>>717506001 (OP)
>>717506270
>muh consumer rights
>how else am I supposed to waste my disposable income online
Middle class problems.

>>717511034
Prisons across the world are already overcrowded and poorly managed and with the way things are going its only going to get worse. When you get caught, and thats not an if, its likely you'll be shipped off to El Salvador to spend the rest of your short life getting raped or stabbed to death by true criminals who pray for squishy little boys like you to end up as their cell mate.

>>717514206
>Middle class problems
And?

I'm honestly going to give up and let the demiurge win.
I'm going to stop playing video games, I'm going to stop watching online videos, I'm going to stop talking to people privately online.
I'm just going to sit in my room, eat, and sleep. I'm going to be in a prison until I reach enlightenment.

>>717514369
But will you pay your taxes?

>>717508085
discord is completely unnecessary so it doesn't need to be replaced.

>random shitholes start requiring age verification
>instead of telling them to fuck off and blocking their ip addresses, instantly roll out compliant frontends

this isn't the internet i grew up on

>>717514369
Yeah I bet. See you again tomorrow and the day after and so on and so forth.

>>717514608
That joke doesn't really work when an external lockout is the topic. It's not funny regardless.

I'm white so I'm not worried about uploading an ID.

>>717514369
just came back from enlightenment to tell you it sucks. the answer is since the demiurge is eternal, immaculate, and unchanging, so it thinks death, decay, suffering, etc, are gifts. it really wants to die but it literally can't, so it pretends its experiencing death vicariously.

>>717514671
You'll fork over your ID and like it, youre all talk just like 99.999999% of this board.

>>717506001 (OP)
turn 360 and walk away
(and finish my backlog)

>>717514806
Anon, we don't know each other in the slightest.

>>717511490
This.
When I was told I didnt pay enough taxes last year (fuck the goyverment and their kike overlords) I was asked to upload ID to a third party company so I would have the ''privilege'' of paying via credit card/ach.

I refused and wrote them a cheque (made sure to rub it on my asshole first) and mailed it in.

Yes the gov already have my info, but shaky 3rd party companies that bribed their way into the process can fuck off

>>717514369
Have you ever quit anything cold turkey?

>>717514965
Yeah.

>>717514574
Literally it's because normies have been ushered in like refuges off busses.

>ID for voting good
>ID for internet bad

>>717506001 (OP)
>online gaming
I will continue to play my offline single-player games.

>>717514965
NTA but I quit fapping cold turkey. It improved my life tremendously. Quittinf things cold turkey isn't as hard as people think. You have more self control than you give yourself credit for. You simply need to choose. The only difficult things to quit are mind altering substances like alcohol, drugs etc. It's why these things are so insidious and frankly should be avoided by everyone. Never take things that remove your own control of your body, that shit is straight up demonic.

>>717515109
Yes, unironically. We wouldnt be having this problem with voter ID, reddit faggot. Go back.

>>717508070
Yes, because I say that shit in real life and not online on 4chan. Yep

>>717515230
>Never take things that remove your own control of your body, that shit is straight up demonic.

like advice from youtube grifters and nofap snake oil salesmen? Yeah agreed.

>>717515329
>Thinking people who want ID for votes don't want this

>>717515230
I haven't jacked off in three days, but I will tonight just because your post is some of the faggiest shit I've read.

>>717515230
Every person I have ever met or seen who calls things demonic always turns out to be a giant hypocrite, so I'm going to ignore your advice entirely.

>>717515468
Keep acting like a nigger and you'll become a nigger.

>>717515329
What's the connection to Reddit? Or was the site name just dropped for spamming purposes.

>>717515109
>Voter ID
Government already has my ID. They aren't getting anything more out of this. I am receiving more secure elections because thirdies and dead niggas can't vote.
>ID for internet
Some faggot corporation doesn't already have my ID and they can suck my cock if they want it.

>>717509370
Pretty well probably. They should reach the tipping point on their Muslims becoming a relevant voting block within the next ten years and from their it's just over.

>>717506001 (OP)
Probably stop using them. Over the last month I've been buying a lot of external data storage, burning data to disks, even bought one of these bad boys for storage. Also started clearing out used media resellers and stocking up on old consoles, games, music and books. Not saying that this is going to happen, but I'm preparing for the eventuality of a no-internet lifestyle.

>>717515230
kys

>>717515627
Brown

>>717506001 (OP)
Steam's already processed my CC several times so they already have my identity. My fault for not buying gift cards at the corner store. It is what it is.

>>717515724
Browns want you faggots to have no voter ID because they can just vote without being citizens.
The entire lefty psyop over voter ID was so you can import infinity browns to rig your elections with.
Every other real nation on earth has voter IDs.

>>717515468
I didnt know youtube grifters had mind control powers. Are you retarded?

>>717515887
you're a braindead puritan trump worshipper and you're calling me retarded?

>>717506001 (OP)
>Discord
Just stop using it
>Steam
time to pirate and also sue
>twitch
lmfao

>>717515620
All of you leftoid spammers come from reddit

>>717515836
Do H1 B visas count? Those are the browns we like.

>>717515963
Sounds like an excuse to post their name. As per usual. Is the website not popular enough that you must bring them into every conversation elsewhere.

>>717506001 (OP)
Visit a local graveyard to obtain a name/birthday, then AI generate a random face for the name

>>717515948
>uhhhhh BLOMPH
Your existence is pathetic.

>>717515949
Even Amazon doesn't want Twitch anymore. They cost the company money, while offering very little outside of propagandist influence. Only a matter of time before Bezos gives them the ax. I don't know why OP would mention them, nobody would care if they disappeared aside from rotbrains who only consume rage bait politics.

i don't use twitch or discord so i guess just pirate the games i want to play

Unironically stop using them.
I've been looking for a reason to quit computers completely and this seems like a golden opportunity.

>>717506001 (OP)
I'm just gonna go back to full-time pirating. I can make do without online multiplayer games.

>>717516060
>didn't deny it

>>717512046
>bug people are compliant slaves

Has worked great for them in the past.

>>717516069
I fucking hate Twitch dude. Twitch hasn't been pro-gamer for a decade now. Fuck them for helping kill Project M.

Good Youtube alternstives? I need a site to upload videos that are minimally moderated, I want to curse. I don't care about monitization but I do care about getting a mobile adblocker.

>>717512071
>teamspeak, ventrilo and IRC
All going to need age verifications btw

>>717514574
The fact everyone had it instantly had it ready to go tells you it’s been in the works for quite a long time and feds were just telling sites what to do

>I'll just use an alternative!
Dude don't you get it?
The alternatives will need to age verify you too. Its the law now

>>717516406
Retard?
These bills have been in the works for like two years and they had one year to comply
The deadline hit the other day
So of course they all rolled it out at the same time

>>717516425
highly doubt csrin is going to ask me to verify my age

>>717516367
You can host your own IRC dude

>>717516196
The issue in pirating right now is that there aren't a lot of people into disassembly. So you won't be playing a lot of the newer AAA games. That said, if you're not into multiplayere then you're not missing out on anything since half of these games are live service nonsense. That said, just be aware. Piracy has changed. And there are definitely government initiatives out there to make things like VPN's less accessible and useful. If you decide to go full pirate, you need to also become an archivist. Find a way to save and backup everything you download.

>>717516482
Wow! Even sites not in the UK?

>>717516353
ditto, let me know if you find something.

>>717516245
This.

It's fucking insane how easily influenced these fags are.

>>717516529
EVERY site is in the uk
If your site doesn't block the UK then it needs to comply(eu/au and America are getting the same laws)
>>717516509
>host it yourself
Cool now you STILL need to age verify AND you will be fined if you don't comply

>>717515641
This is retarded. While I admire your dedication to data hoarding, I don’t think this will be necessary. If the normie internet goes full censorship, all it will do is create an underground internet outside of the world wide web. The internet isn’t going anywhere. Prohibition does not work and has never worked in the history of history. Prohibition creates underground markets and that is exactly what is going to happen with the internet, ESPECIALLY the internet. This is an almost magical tool we have been given, the ability to anonymously share ideas and the breadth of human knowledge from the last 3 millennia across the globe free from the tyranny of governments. That is not something they can take away, and their attempts at doing so will only create new pockets where the people will continue to speak against them and share truth

>>717506001 (OP)
>Singh
Uh huh

>>717516697
>If your site doesn't block the UK then it needs to comply
That’s not how it works a site thats not hosted in the UK would not be subject to UK laws, the UK would have to block it themselves

>>717506001 (OP)
Invent and integrate exciting, innovative new 'Gamer Words' to properly convey my feelings and thoughts. I don't see problems, I see solutions.

>>717516714
>Prohibition does not work and has never worked in the history of history.
Prohibition DID work.
One of the greatest feats the alcohol companies managed was convincing people that prohibition didn't work
You kill the culture of drinking and young people stop drinking. And boom its dead
Just for the short duration it was in. It took 30+ years for sales to go back up

>>717516714
What, like using new ports and/or different protocols to do the same thing?

>>717515641
based, don't pay attention to glowing posts trying to avert you from doing this

>>717516670
they worship the ground their cheeto god walks on

>>717516714
> Prohibition creates underground markets and that is exactly what is going to happen with the internet, ESPECIALLY the internet.

I would like that to be the case, and it largely is already if you know what you're doing. Hell, it's the main reason I'm in school now. But I like to have a plan A, plan B, and plan C option. Physical data storage (hoarding) is the backbone. Even if the net went dark (god forbid) I would still have my data.

>>717516857
>It took 30+ years for sales to go back up
because everyone and their brother had a still. alcohol is incredibly easy to make.

>>717516827
>That’s not how it works a site thats not hosted in the UK would not be subject to UK laws
No retard
They issue an arrest
You get extradited
>b-but I don't host in the UK
The law is very clear on this. You will get fined

>>717516714
I'm a lot more pessimistic, in the prohibition era the state didn't have the resources to crack down on illegal shit, but today, there are a ton of tools the state can used to crack down on almost anything, particularly if it's on the internet, all they have to do is squeeze the ISPs balls.

>>717506001 (OP)
Most games I have bought legally I got through GOG and already have them backed up on drives.
Any other games such as free shit and emulated I also have downloaded already. Nearly 3000 games all ready to go at any time.

Sometimes I wonder if I had spent time playing instead of downloading how many games I could have finished.

>>717516912
>because everyone and their brother had a still. alcohol is incredibly easy to make.
No
Because young people stopped drinking
Like this isn't up for debate. They studied the fuck out of it afterwards.

>>717506001 (OP)
>steam
Sail out to the high seas and embrace the pirate life.
Twitch and discord are for faggots and trannies.

The lefty grifters in these threada are so sad. This will never be your site.

>>717516951
Well when the verification checks roll out and you want to ignore Youtube and Google services for a few months or years, it sounds like it'll be the perfect time to get on that backlog.

>>717516926
That is not how it works you cannot be extradited for a crime you commit violating one countries laws while you’re in another country lmao

>I'll just hoard data!
Then you'll get raided. Only pirates/pedos/criminals need excess storage
Store it on the cloud or you are hiding something

>>717516714
i was about to cite the anti-porn brigade getting porn banned by going after payment processors because i forgot this is just part of the anti-porn campaign.

anywho, all anti-porn needs to do is start going after the ISPs who allow porn on their networks and then that goes too. ISPs already throttle TOR. yes, your ISP knows you use TOR.

>>717506001 (OP)
If its anything like the ID my country have to use, carry on using images of Norman Reedus and our PM.

>>717517057
You can
Thats how this shit has worked since the 80s
Or do you think you can just hack other countries and get away with it since you aren't in that country?

>>717517000
>Because young people stopped drinking

People drank like fishes in the 40's all the way up to the 70's wtf are you talking about

>>717516912
Alcohol is insanely easy to make, a little yeast, a little sugar is all you really need. When I was broke neet I would make my own hooch with juice and yeast packets I got from the food bank. Didn't have to spend a penny. That made me think about all the other things I could make or create in times of crisis, and it made me realize that there is always a way to get what you want.

>>717517000
>hello sir will you answer this survey do you illegally consume alcohol
>... no?

stills are illegal bro.

>>717517179
Hope you paid cash for your drives anon
We will be checking for people that bulk bought storage soon

>>717517057
You can, it just needs them to give a shit enough to scoop you up and possibly a hone government lax enough to let that happen. America was already in the Middle East's ass when we went and plucked Osama from this world.

>>717517073
Is what it is, I'm not into anything nefarious. But if feds want to WACO, I'm down for the party.

>>717517150
Non Sequitur. Hacking is an active attack. If what you said was true Pirate Bay devs would be extradited lol

>>717512046
And iirc identify theft is also a rampant crime in Korea because of it.

>>717517330
And sharing porn is an active attack on the minds of british children
It also makes you liable for sharing porn with minors
Basically you are going away for a long long time pedo

>>717508301
Step 3 instantly fails. Look at the Tea app

>I'll just use irc or self host some other obscure app
Me and many others will report you
I have already submitted 50+ sites that aren't complying. Including 4chan.

>>717517330
none of the countries where piracy is a criminal offense have extradition agreements with anyone

>>717517443
Oh sorry you’re Jewish thought this was a real convo

>>717506608
>mIRC
RIP embedded image sharing
Unless?

Guess it's time for people to create their own Intranets. Knew this would happen eventually.

>>717517569
>jews use porn to destroy nations
>they're also anti-porn

...

>>717517681
>create their own Intranets
Won't help
You'll still need to age verify

>>717517736
Nope

>>717517583
>>717506608
Didn't teamspeak get a discord style makeover?

>>717517736
this nigga fucking dumb, like, this nigga fucking apeshit stupid

no you will not bankrupt multi billion companies
no it wont change
no the normies wont wake up

just look at UK they just took it in the ass without lube thats how most world will do it. they prefer convience above everything.

>>717510785
Not that anon, but here you go:
>https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/eudi-doc-architecture-and-reference-framework/blob/main/docs/architecture-and-reference-framework-main.md#74353-zero-knowledge-proofs
The issue is that phones don't (currently) have the required hardware to do zero-knowledge-proofs. The government is going to give you a token that says you're 18+, but it knows what the token looks like. When you then send the token to Steam (or Pornhub or 4chan), they will see it, so somebody with access to both can simply correlate the tokens to find out who you are even though all you shared was the 18+ token. The only guarantee you have that this isn't going to happen is that the government promises not to do it (all this is going to happen outside the part of the system that's open source, so there's no citizen oversight). The EU has been downplaying this issue, which is called attestation provider linkability.

>>717517775
Yep!
Its millions of dollars in fines that the host will be responsible for
>no hosts dude its x
Then you'll all get fined.

sadly the govt doesn't understand at a certain point people are just going to independently make tor 2.0 to directly connect to things they need and want but this time the government won't control enough end nodes for them to use the network for themselves

>>717517871
Cool but I'll be the change I want to see.

>>717517871
then i'll leave. i am not some british cuck, my breaking point is not that high

>>717517871
if they prefer convenience, why are they bending over for something that makes their life less convenient?

Do any of these 18+ verification services collect anything that your isp or whatever dns server you are using don't already collect?

>>717517906
>but this time the government won't control enough end nodes for them to use the network for themselves
Oh shit, that's tight. How will they do that?

>>717517906
Tor and VPN traffic will be restricted to certain whitelisted addresses
Anything that you do to get around the ban is illegal
You will be labelled a nonce and fined then jailed

>>717513948
What if i have a crazy dick?

>>717518015
Read your driver's license and ask that again.

>>717517723
I was kinda joking but yeah super Jewish to try and redirect convo lol
If your interpretation of law was correct Pirate Bay creators would have been extradited rather than being able to simply switch host countries

>>717516893
I'm not, I've read enough on the subject (and fifth generational warfare) to know that there isn't much they can do once you have the physical data. Only actions left to seize that data are kinetic. And if things get to that point then we're already in some kind of civil conflict, war, national or global "altercation". Whatever you want to call it, it means bad times for everybody, not just me.

>>717518049
>>717517906
Tor traffic stands out btw.
If they make tor illegal then you are fucked

how the fuck does this gay UK thing work anyway? is it enforced by the ISPs? can the brits just use starlink like a third worlder south african to get around it?

>>717518159
Dude they will check your purchase history
See you have a large amount of storage
Then give you a door knock
Btw if they are encrypted they can hold you indefinitely till you decrypt then

>>717517906
It's possible, but that infrastructure is going to be spotty at best because of the physical resources you need to make it happen. Now if there was a global conflict, hot zones and areas that were hard to access due to conflict you might be able to get away with some stuff. But that situation wouldn't be ideal. I like the internet, but I don't like the idea of another world war or another dark age.

>>717506001 (OP)
>take a picture of yourself pulling a funny face, slave!
>no, funnier! you want your circuses, don't you? to distract you from how terrible we've made everything?
>now rub your stomach and pat your head!
>ok, cool, off this goes to a database to be held by a third party corpo with complete immunity from liability
>see you tomorrow
I think I'll just not engage with these services until the situation gets so unhinged that their efforts are either rendered completely powerless or are forced to get their shit together

>>717517813
You still need to pay for servers.
Otherwise you join the free public server and make your own singular channel for you and your friends to hang out.

>>717518221
It's only enforced by ISPs in the UK but the websites (Google, Meta, etc) are forced to comply with these demands and add these verification checks to their websites. It's speculated that it's part of a major plan to get the entire first world to verify userdata, but other countries (I think Indonesia?) are already rolling out their own forms of the Online Saftey Act. In fact here in the US we have a bill proposed currently being read over called the Screen Act, and if passed will do the same thing to the US.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/737/text

>>717518317
it is not a crime to store most data offline, and if it does become a crime, we'll have much bigger problems than age verification

>>717518317
I'll make sure to fill one of the NAS with dolphin porn just for them then.

>>717518221
>how the fuck does this gay UK thing work anyway? is it enforced by the ISPs?
Its enforced by the companies. Tens of millions of dollars in fines if they don't comply
>starlink
Technically if you only used the laser links between sats then yes
But that only happens during emergencies
99.99% of the time the beam goes back to a ground station inside the country it came from

>>717518083
Shine on, crazy dick anon.

>>717518317
I'm sure they will, but like I said. If it gets to the point where there are door knocks happening then the country will likely be in a state of civil conflict already, war. At that point I'm basically living on borrowed time anyway. Am I going to be more afraid of some militia group stringing me up by a highway overpass or the government swooping in to steal my things. Moot point imo.

>>717518402
>it is not a crime to store most data offline
It will be shortly
Also you don't have the right for most of that data you hoarded

>>717508507
you don't even play video games lol worthless nigger

>>717518470
yeah it's move to south america time at that point

>>717518536
fuck that, I'm staying right here. I'm too jaded and old to care about running. Living in warzone absolutely sucks. But it is what it is.

>>717518502
then we'll shortly have much bigger problems than age verification

>>717518601
nah, fuck em, if they've trashed the bill of rights that badly i have absolutely zero interest in being complacent. it's either civil war or i leave

Huge amount of gamers are underaged and all the oldheads are too redpilled to give out IDs.
Unironically this might kill the industry especially since its been in decline for a while now.

>>717518758
>Unironically this might kill the industry especially since its been in decline for a while now.
Source?

>>717518687
I was talking to this truck driver recently who came over to the US from the Ukraine and we were discussing life out there. Basically just went about his day, going from farm to farm with his deliveries, but occasionally he would have to avoid firefights or the occasional explosion in a field. I assume it would be very much like that here in the states. You could still live your life, it's just a bit more shitty.

>>717518807
doesn't matter. fuck them.

>>717517985
leave for some african shithole but you still wont be able to access sites because it will be used by every major website in the world

>>717517479
Explain how this is anything close to Tea.

>>717518862
there will be no major websites at that point. have you ever looked at a chinese social media hub? they're completely plastic. the internet will be dead if every major country implements shit like this, there won't be anything left worth accessing

>>717509575
You clearly did not follow France during kung flu. Just say they won't be allowed to restaurants and clubs and 99% will follow your command.

>>717506001 (OP)
>Steam
My steam account is over 20 years old
>Twitch
I don't watch people play games, but my account has existed since it before anyone gave a shit about justin.tv, so about 18 years old
>Discord
I don't use discord, but I could go back to using IRC.

>>717518974
You're assuming that everyone wanted to go cough on each other like Americans.

>>717519005
Old accounts don't matter

>>717518396
EU passed same chat control few days ago. yes e-ID is real and here by the end of year.

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/

btw all the factions voted for this, the right, the chuds, the left, greens etc.

>>717518889
The accounts are flagged as age verified, but they didn't delete the verification data, which is something the app literally promised they'd do. The data was then stored in a publicly accessible cloud storage which required zero hacker knowhow.

>>717506285
What if in a data breach someone stole all the IDs, with the the IDs of the President, Prime Minister, Kings and other high-ranking people?

>>717519053
you proved his point very well. america is the only non-npc country at this point

>>717518758
zoomers are retards who will give out id for access to their free drug.

>>717519129
And this is similar to a government-provided application how? Is your government storing your ID in a public S3 bucket?

>>717519174
Better sell it quick, that shit would make bank.

>>717519236
Some third-party Indian programmer probably would, yes.

>>717509575
wooow and what it achieved? thats right NOTHING.
uk lowered voting age so they are speeding up islamification because barely anyone in europe under 30 is caucasian these days

>>717519316
This is what Americans actually believe.

>>717519102
Looking forward to yurop breaking down people's doors for saying "nigger" on 4chins

>>717518957
how do chink netizens live then?

I'll see maybe one of you on the local intranet!

>>717518807
>You could still live your life
Not if you got shot or blow up

>>717519547
they're chinese bugmen, what do you expect? all the ones with a soul flee to the US, and the chinese net seethes about it constantly. they have a whole gallery of slurs for the kind of dudes who come over here and open a chinese restaurant

>>717519670
Thanks, I could go for some chinese for lunch. I've been undecided

>>717519657
I could get stabbed or shot on my way to work now, with all these hood rats and illegal aliens all over the place. A few extra points of danger wouldn't change much.

>>717510040
Yeah dude an email is gonna make a difference. You wanna make some real change grab a gun

Kek I just realized
>use a VPN from UK/Red State
>show your ID or payment info or whatever
>”we’re sorry, this ID/Payment info is flagged as from the UK/(insert Red State here)”

>>717506001 (OP)
Steam and other shops already have my identify via the payment methods which are tied to me and which I use to pay. Twitch and Discord lmao

>>717506001 (OP)
>Steam
My account is 18 years old. It would be weird if steam asks for id.

>>717515230
Fappers got assblasted over this post

>>717519870
if you live someplace where that's a real danger, you're a cuck

>>717506286
right, because data leaks never happened before and now that they have every information about you, surely that'll deter hackers more, right?

>>717520013
Well, I'm not moving. The real cuck move would be to leave and embed myself in another community, instead of using my will to power and dealing with the problems in my way.

I think it's hilarious that growing up I was told over and over again to never give out any personal information online, then the generation after me was tricked into telling everyone their weaknesses and secrets, and now this.

>>717520227
ok cuck

>>717520246
That's what illegal immigrants are doing. Instead of fixing their nation of origin they run away from their problems.

>>717518115
Right, not a single thing on it that my isp don't already have. Hell they have way more info than that.

>>717520371
you're not moving, you're not fixing the problem, but you sure are bitching about people who make the smart choice for themselves. it's not in other country's interest to let them in, but it's smart of them to try
not that you would understand that, cuck

>steam offline mode
>try to launch game
>have to scan eyeball to get it running

>>717510626
But the point is not really to age gate, it's to tie that account and everything done on it, and everything connected/related to that account, to your government ID. The goal here to ensure there is nowhere you can go on the internet where they will not immediately know what you are saying, who you are associating with, every minute habit or behavioral pattern associated with your use of the internet.
It doesn't matter if your account is 30 years, they will still make you ID yourself so all of that data and anything connected to it is connected to your big government profile.

>>717519870
Im not going to tell you that you aren't able to live a happy life in a more dangerous area, but don't you think you're failing to see the forest for the trees by not correlating that increase in danger with your probability of having your life ruined, if not with your general comfort level and feeling of security?

>>717519891
You know Visa and Mastercard aren't able to ignore all their calls and emails right now.
>>717519967
>It would be weird if steam asks for id.
Almost as weird as the Online Saftey Act itself?

>>717520610
I disagree, you're afraid of the problem which is why you are running. This is beta behavior.

>>717520856
ok cuck

>>717520685
We were afraid of the wrong giant here the whole time

Violence upon wallstreet.

>>717506001 (OP)
There is the option "stop using", and there's the option "truck of peace".
But if available i will use the "just generate some fake dude with AI and use it instead of myself".

>>717520761
Attachment to the land and region along with communal duty trumps my own personal security. My agency dictates that I affect change within my sphere as opposed to fleeing from hardship.

>>717521014
corpo cyberpunk dystopia would have been the good end, at least in that universe you only need to cough up money to appease the local gods, they don't demand your dignity

>>717521160
>dumbfuck millennial still blaming governmental violence on wall street
many such cases

>>717520849
>Almost as weird as the Online Saftey Act itself?
I mean it's from UK, they are all weird there, in my opinion they should be isolated from the rest of the world. Physically.

>>717506001 (OP)
For steam? I upload an ID. Already gave them my full name, address, credit card number, the numbers on the back of the card, and my phone number for 2-factor. wtf else could they possibly do with a picture? They can already demand ID in certain situations anyway. If they had a data breach myself and everyone ITT are already fucked, an ID photo adds nothing.
The other services have nothing of value though so I'll just never use them

>>717506285
>a---
the fence sitter plant raking money pretending to be "based"
>>717520371
nope they are conquering not running away

>>717521190
>Attachment to the land and region along with communal duty
I wholeheartedly respect this outlook. I pray you are able to make a positive impact to your community and be unimpeded by the powers that be in your pursuit.
That said, fight with us brother. We'll keep our homes safe and secure together.

>>717521190
funny how you still don't bother to do that

>>717521292
>they should be isolated from the rest of the world.
I agree, which is why Youtube forcing age checks in the US is far beyond the line.

So what happens after bongland is inevitably hit with a massive surge of cyber crime? Will other countries reconsider rolling this totalitarian shit out or will they continue to stubbornly chug down the retard juice?

Start backing up EVERYTHING. They are speedrunning to endgame and the phase out of the free, open internet will almost certainly end with the internet and networked devices (including anything in reach of those networked devices capable of recieving a signal) being wiped in a 'cyber pandemic' to wipe the slate clean for a new age of total information control. Wiping out 40+ years of the accumulated information of the entire planet lets them curate information from the outset and define history and ultimately the truth for the next generation.

>>717521590
Then those "cybercriminals" will be villified and used as an example of why we can't have digital freedoms.
Now that the cyberpolice are actually real I would like to capitalize on memeing that into culture.

>>717521590
the US is the only country in the world that might, maybe, have a populace that pushes back. everybody else is doomed, they're wholly complacent

>>717521618
I need to go through my Youtube favorites and download mp4s before these digital bombs drop. Too much art thst needs proper preservation.
https://youtu.be/W0zpr543T0o

>>717521590
60% of Brits are happy with the new law, so I don't see anything changing

>>717521405
>conquering
>by working the dogshit awful jobs no one else wants to do

>>717521618
They don't need to wipe out anything, just make it inaccessible. It's not a future thing, it already happened. They feed the internet to LLMs, tweak and censor the output. At the same time, they let traditional search engines get gamed and abused until they're unusable, so LLMs become the replacement and how everyone accesses information. Google and MS are already doing this.

For user-generated content, they implement filters that encourage self-censorship. Take tiktok for instance, users censor themselves and won't even say k*ll or att*ck without censoring it. There are still uncensored videos but they don't reach any viewers.

There's no need to delete the old content, just drown it in a firehose of slop and make it impossible to search for. This already happened.

>>717506001 (OP)
the fake id market is gonna be booming

>>717521934
Happy until their driver's license, passport, or bank details gets compromised 3-6 months from now.

>>717522015
you mean overtaking organized crime and getting ton of money from state for nothing?
you know shit about this and it shows

>>717506001 (OP)
I already don't use Twitch or Discord, and I've been switching to using Gog and Itch over Steam when possible.

if burgers just voted for the stupid woke lady none of this would be happening btw

>>717506001 (OP)
oomphies I don't feel so good...
If that were to happen, I might leave the internet entirely/or only use websites that don't bother me with those draconian requirements

>>717522665
bipartisan laws

>>717522665
yes it would
2025 was always set as the year the big push towards full implementation of Agenda 2030 goals would begin in earnest. We have known this was coming for years, because they told us. Anyone who cares enough has been watching the entire system move in lockstep to set the groundwork for this and field test aspects of it on unsuspecting populaces for over a decade.
The age of the digital prison is coming and it cannot be stopped, you can only prepare and adapt to living through the nightmare hellscape that is coming.

>>717522564
and you've been fed a line and you swallowed it

>>717506207
Retard
The Semites are encircling you through monopolies
You can't run for long

>>717506001 (OP)
>Steam
Switch back to texting I guess. I don't actually play any games with chat on steam, but I use steam friends chat a bit.
>Twitch
Intolerably dogshit site I've used twice, once for a giveaway and once to watch a friend. I hate twitch so much I wouldn't even hesitate to block it permanently.
>Discord
I've never used discord and have no plans to.

Regardless if I was forced to ID I would use the latest slop generator and generate a fake ID and two fake photos of a mystery meat person to submit to it. If it's good enough to fool some retards online it's good enough to fool a reviewer, AI or not.

neetbros what the fuck do we do when they ban the internet?
get a job?

>>717523650
Become 1337 hackers and hack the mainframe to see which high profile politicians are into furry fart porn.

>>717523650
Ban the internet? How would they do that? It's too integrated into society at this point.
Maybe they ban using the clearnet unmonitored but that's different and circumventable.

>>717521590
>So what happens after bongland is inevitably hit with a massive surge of cyber crime?

They could push the self-destruction button and launch the nukes.
Toltalitarian societies never "lose", they prefer destroy everything

literally everybody saw this coming and it's only going to get worse

>>717506285
>so some random company doesn't just get access directly to your data
governments already outsource this sort of thing
UK outsources data management for medical records and recently had a massive scandal because the database leaked

>>717506764
>they already do this
then there's no need for these measures

>>717519670
With the way the UK is just taking this up the ass I'd say the bongs and the chinks are one of the same kek

>>717527543
Brits are pussies, this isn't surprising. That said, they wouldn't be doing this to the brits if they didn't perceived the general public as a threat. So maybe i shouldn't be so hard on the bongs.

>>717506285
>so some random company doesn't just get access directly to your data

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_broker

>>717522537
Lol what do you think the bongs are gonna do when they get hacked? Riot on the streets? Nah, they're gonna angrily vote for the other party and then go back home to watch ngubu score another goal on the telly.

>>717506001 (OP)
People are just going to rise and figure out different solutions the only game that might make me think about doing it would be dota but even then I wouldn't

>>717506001 (OP)
Oh no, now I will have to start using twitch and discord so that I can stop using them lmao

And without steam I guess I will just be stuck using my PS5, XBox 360, PS2, PS1, SNES, and Nintendo along with the 35+ years of games I have for them lmao. I don't pirate you see, I am a goodboy who doesn't even know how to pirate frfr.

>>717506001 (OP)
I don't use any of them

>>717506001 (OP)
I use none of those

Pirate everything, backup everything. External hard drives do not last very long, 4-5 years for a good one. You will have to buy new ones occasionally. Use CDRW frequently. Remember to organize your folders and files. Good luck frens.

>>717523038
>You can't do anything don't resist just bend over and get anally raped!!!!!!1111
Has anyone else noticed how this kind of post as suddenly become numerous? Like just straight up telling people you can't do shit and everything's fucked. Is weird.

>>717529219
Nah, it's not weird. I've seen plenty of these posts over the year. Demoralization isn't a new concept. But good on you for noticing. Keep it up.

>>717528234
They're already rioting in the streets. It's half the reason why their current administration is now scrambling to bring about a digital dystopia.

>>717526465
It's what people want. Like if women didn't want to get raped they would dress appropriately.

>>717517878
damn, no replies. one of the more intelligent answers here

>>717529638
I saw it. Saved the link and took a screenshot of your post.

>>717506001 (OP)
As gayben himself said piracy is a service problem. If they want my ID that's a service problem and I will go back to pirating

>>717516697
>Cool now you STILL need to age verify AND you will be fined if you don't comply
Nice head canon

>>717529863
im not the one who posted that reply, but thank i guess

>>717506001 (OP)
Aren't they pushing slop generators harder than ever? What's stopping you from slopping up fake ID and a couple pics?

>>717506001 (OP)
>What are you going to do when Steam, Twitch, Discord, and other online gaming related services force you to upload an ID to play/buy/chat?
Use AI to create a fake Identity because none of these things will actually check existing databases for legitimacy.

>>717528608
>my PS5
Lol, funny how you think they won't also require digital ID.

>>717506001 (OP)
>This happens
>Internet now has less vectors for abuse as minors cannot easily join public platforms
>People who care about privacy avoid these services
>Use a non-community/"server"-centric chat platform instead to keep in touch with your loved ones (WhatsApp, Telegram, email, what have you)
with your friends
>Internet now relegated to use mostly for business and education
>Rely less on the internet for entertainment, enjoy more books, movies, board games, social activities
Seems like an absolute win to me.
>INB4 glowie
I am actively encouraging you to share as little personal information as possible.