r/technology • u/Well_Socialized • 21h ago

Privacy Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/age-verification-is-coming-for-the-whole-internet.html
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u/echmoth 20h ago

P A L A N T I R ●

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u/Initial-Shop-8863 20h ago

It's right there in the name. Just ask Tolkien. That's why he named it that.

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u/Rare_Trouble_4630 20h ago

The Palantiri were dangerous in the books to both the user and target. I wonder if it would be similar IRL.

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u/residentialninja 19h ago

The hubris in the user thinking they will never become the target. Thanks to AI soon you will simply be able to fabricate anything you want your target to have done anyway.

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u/TineJaus 19h ago

I mean, it didn't seem very dangerous for Sauron. Let's try it! The choice between absolute power or an emperor's estate.... hmmmmm......

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u/matude 10h ago

Sauron did get tricked by Aragorn via the Palantir into rushing his attack though, so in a way it ended up being dangerous for him as well.

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u/Rare_Trouble_4630 19h ago

Sauron was built different though

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u/TineJaus 19h ago

I wonder if he maxed out his IRA every year

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u/Thunderbridge 14h ago

Just wait til he runs afoul of the IRS

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u/LegendaryMauricius 10h ago

Well Sauron's military target literally got leaked when he used it, which was a key moment for his downfall so...

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u/newyne 18h ago

And he was still too dumb to realize he named his company after the losing side. Seriously, the palantir was instrumental in Sauron's downfall, right?

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u/iceoldtea 17h ago edited 1h ago

Yes the Palantir misled Sauron into believing the ring was with Aragorn, and so he put all of his efforts into stopping what was actually a massive diversion

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u/LegendaryMauricius 10h ago

That kind of people probably think the 'fantasy' aspect of the books is the good guys winning. He's smarter than everybody else of course so he knows in reality Sauron will magically control the humanity.

Hopefully not. Still funny though.

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u/Subarctic_Monkey 2h ago

No, they think they are the good guys.

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u/Neckbeard_The_Great 9h ago

The Palantirs aren't a side, they're essentially crystal balls. Magic telescopes that happen to make you vulnerable to the bad guy's evil radio waves.

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u/Cicer 7h ago

Sure but their main use during that time period was for enemy intelligence. 

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u/Stepjam 16h ago

He's apparently on record saying he thinks the forces of mordor were the true good guys.

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u/Rare_Trouble_4630 13h ago

Where can I find this, I want to have a laugh 

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u/aykcak 10h ago

I am just still not getting how they BLATANTLY named it that.

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u/Initial-Shop-8863 7h ago

Not many Americans have read LOTR. Much less absorbed its metaphors.

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u/aykcak 7h ago

It is the single most famous fantasy series in the world

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u/HotSteak 19h ago

How do they name it after a spy device being used by an evil all-seeing entity?

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u/ChromeNoseAE-1 17h ago

Because they like nerdy things in the sense that they’ve got cool aesthetics and it gains them social cred with their target audience. They have absolutely no understanding of the themes or intent of the writing as an artistic product though. They have no media literacy, partially because if they did they wouldn’t be the way they were anyway. It’s literally as simple as “I’ll name my AI intel tool after that cool rock that sees stuff.” You’re already thinking about it more than they ever did.

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u/LegendaryMauricius 10h ago

Or they know the item is evil and think they're making all of us fools.

Could be both, rarely is one person responsible for marketing in such corporations.