We regulate certain things more or less out of existence because they're dangerous. Certain types of products which people can't or won't make themselves can be prohibited from sale, for example. I generally am in favor of legalizing things and enforcing laws against fraud, so that people get honest information about consequences, but I also like for people to be protected from other people.

Tobacco products are my favorite example because they affect people who aren't even using them. We allow them to persist only because of a profitable and highly taxable industry, not because of any notions about freedom. Freedom would be to permit you to grow your own instead of enabling the cancer stick industry, and let all the smokers move to farms in the south.

I feel like they are asking for the sun. Are you new to negotiations?

I also feel like all of this could have been avoided by just not doing what we've been doing. For decades.

Here's a fun fact, there's a clearing house colloquially known as the "federal hub" where your name, DOB, SSN, and ID numbers can be rubbed together and your citizenship verified in seconds if you're well-documented. It takes longer to verify noncitizen status, but citizenship is stupidly easy to verify once identity has been verified, and registered noncitizens are required to carry their citizenship documents anyway... authorization to work, legal permanent resident card, passport, etc etc. Those are also all photo ID.

The passport is the gold star of verification, as it verifies both citizenship and identity anywhere in the US.

Addictive products are just good products! Have a cigar.

It's more that they have seen they can count on protectionism. Which ironically they also hate because it subjects them to dealers

Indeed. Here in California we are the poster children for this, because we have a 55 mph speed limit while towing which is NEVER enforced. We have a requirement that headlights be aimed correctly, same. We have a law saying that if there are five or more people behind you, you must pull over at the first safe opportunity to let them pass, same. Fender flares must project as far as tires, same. (Anyone who's ever had a rock break their windshield understands.)

CHP cares specifically and only about revenue generation, so they do nothing to improve safety except go after speeders. That's not nothing, but it's not enough.

If they weren't they wouldn't buy their shit, so they KNOW they're stupid

First, Iran has never been close to having a weapon

Second, if they do want one, it's because their primary enemies have one, and one of them is the only country to ever nuke another country

Or the gravel pit

Tech lust. Some of us can't help ourselves and buy shiny new tech products even though they're not particularly useful to us or even generally kind of crap. All our vices are devices. I've got a long list of tech products that I've bought over the years that seemed nifty or interesting even if they weren't worth the money. It's not really any more expensive than many other hobbies or typical money sinks for people with more money than sense.

Unless these are a significant step up from Chromebooks, they can go into the catch-all "craptop" product category. This already sounds like a Chromebook only with AI features. I think I'll pass on this.

Yes they certainly do, but if they would actually do this, it wouldn’t be a problem. We already h e age restrictions for tobacco, alcohol, and other things. They won't stop underaged kids from obtaining them, but they do help to some degree. There are too many absent or deadbeat parents for that to be the only solution to the problem.

It's not perfect, but it's better than nothing. Surely you agree that publishing health warnings about the dangers of smoking tobacco was a good idea despite that only happening centuries too late and even though there are still people who smoke cigarettes?

If adults want to use technology that will turn them into mindless zombies or rot their brains then that's their own choice. As long as the risks are published it's none of your or my business what someone chooses to do with their life as long as it's not hurting us in any way.

The FCC isn't making these decisions. They are made by the DoD and the DHS, per the initial announcement.