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Wow California leading the way to fascism, who woulda thunk?
Colorado Dems pushing a similar law rn.
Fucking idiots.
Because it's not that crazy or authoritarian and is basically what most websites already do to "verify" you age (which is to say nothing but asking you your age). But the onus is now being put on OS makers, with an additional clause to build an API for other developers to access so they also can "know" a user's age.
The photo ID requirements are what will come next.
Maybe. But it will be funny for a little bit when the data starts showing the average age of a Californian is over 200 years.
They'll tag all the Linux users with "1 January 1970"
It always ALWAYS comes step by step!
First they will introduce age "non-real-check", then they will enforce the check: you have accepted the principle, so what's the big deal if we actually check it?
How do you catch a wild pig? (i dont remember the source)
We are the pig and they're already standing up the fences!!!
It’s been that way for a very long time.
California leading the way? Have you been under a rock? It even says this in the article....
Get people used to a mild form of age verification. Next step, full ID upload.
Final step: Drink verification cans before you can boot your ~~P~~C.
This kinda seems like a roundabout way of avoiding government /corporate age verification laws? Like it doesn't require ID verification or biometrics and runs a local api to verify age.
Can someone smarter than me please explain if this is a good thing or not?
I'm not saying I'm smarter than you but to me it looks like "Hey yeah we require age verification. So, anyway..."
A token easily bypassed "verification" law to set and forget. It's basically the same level of security corrently keeping teenage boys off of PornHub.
It's not really easily bypassed though, if only the administrator can set the date of birth for an account. if the parent does not use the admin account for daily usage (and they shouldn't for other reasons), then the majority of the children won't be able to change it
I meant that the law is easily bypassed, for example by not implementing what you described. Good point nonetheless.